Decluttering report
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vgqn's similar efforts, I thought I'd start posting my progress too. Current project started as an effort to Do Something about the tall teetery pile of books and comics on top of a shelf unit in the upstairs hall. Ultimately, I moved all the non-sff books to the bookshelf in the living room, giving away 4-5 boxes of books that were filling that shelf to capacity and beyond. At one point there were actually 2 or 3 empty shelves in that unit! (Not any more - I filled them yesterday with another surprise cache of non-sff).
Current project is to get all the sf&f paperbacks shelved in alphabetical order. This used to be the case, but more and more books arrived and long ago overran the alphabet shelves. I've spent probably 8 hours of the last week sorting and dusting. Just vacuuming the disgusting layer of dust off the tops of each shelf of books is amazingly time consuming.
I boxed up all the sf magazines (Analog and others) - haven't entirely decided whether to keep them or give them away. In some ways, these magazines are more worth keeping than the books, since they contain many stories that were never published anywhere else and would be hard to find again.
Still not enough room. Then I had the bright idea of making room on the alphabet shelves by pulling out Special Collections and putting them elsewhere. Brilliant! I decided to move sets of books that could reasonably be classified as children's books into the paperback shelves behind the door in Amber's room. There were some books on those shelves, but mostly miscellaneous junk. I relocated all the Andre Norton (2 shelves worth!), a shelf of Oz books, another shelf of Tarzan and Conan books. Still not enough. So I reclassified the Lovecraft Collection as part of the Vintage Fantasy Collection (Lin Carter, A. Merritt, et al) and parked those in there too. There might possibly be enough room now to get A-Z into the 2nd floor shelves. Much more dusting and book-hauling on the agenda for today.
vgqn's similar efforts, I thought I'd start posting my progress too. Current project started as an effort to Do Something about the tall teetery pile of books and comics on top of a shelf unit in the upstairs hall. Ultimately, I moved all the non-sff books to the bookshelf in the living room, giving away 4-5 boxes of books that were filling that shelf to capacity and beyond. At one point there were actually 2 or 3 empty shelves in that unit! (Not any more - I filled them yesterday with another surprise cache of non-sff).Current project is to get all the sf&f paperbacks shelved in alphabetical order. This used to be the case, but more and more books arrived and long ago overran the alphabet shelves. I've spent probably 8 hours of the last week sorting and dusting. Just vacuuming the disgusting layer of dust off the tops of each shelf of books is amazingly time consuming.
I boxed up all the sf magazines (Analog and others) - haven't entirely decided whether to keep them or give them away. In some ways, these magazines are more worth keeping than the books, since they contain many stories that were never published anywhere else and would be hard to find again.
Still not enough room. Then I had the bright idea of making room on the alphabet shelves by pulling out Special Collections and putting them elsewhere. Brilliant! I decided to move sets of books that could reasonably be classified as children's books into the paperback shelves behind the door in Amber's room. There were some books on those shelves, but mostly miscellaneous junk. I relocated all the Andre Norton (2 shelves worth!), a shelf of Oz books, another shelf of Tarzan and Conan books. Still not enough. So I reclassified the Lovecraft Collection as part of the Vintage Fantasy Collection (Lin Carter, A. Merritt, et al) and parked those in there too. There might possibly be enough room now to get A-Z into the 2nd floor shelves. Much more dusting and book-hauling on the agenda for today.
