The task of downsizing our collection is finished. I suspect that many normal people think I have a long way to go if I were to ever put this house on the market. Donna and Shannon Freeman would be telling Clive that our collections of books is "too taste specific" and "has too much of our own personality still in the house for potential buyers to see themselves living here."
I mentioned in a previous blog we have eight bookcases filled with collections of Harvard Classics, Library of America, local history, books we bought while traveling, Civil War history, fantasy series, cozy mysteries for entertainment, National Geographic and Time-Life books for armchair travel, and reference books for investing, Photoshop Elements, and genealogy. This project is finished because I added the titles of six boxes of books in garage storage to the to-read shelves of my husband and I at goodreads.com AND I offered the titles of books in eight boxes to my Half.com listings.
My husband and I have more than 400 books to-read. I don't expect to be done with That Project for another 4-6 years. Hikerdon began his collection of some fantasy series in the early 1990s. He did not feel the need to rush to read them because he liked to read a series one after another without waiting a year or more for the next installment to be released. Confusion about the many different series from a same author have led him to purchases that did not complete a series. Goodreads.com is a useful tool for keeping series straight. My project of reading all the books I bought on our travels (project started in 2007) will not be completed in 2009 as I thought it might when I finished The Best of Edward Abbey. I found more books for that project in the box marked "Western books. "
Guess what we DON'T need for Christmas!
my to-read bookshelf
Hikerdon's to-read shelf
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