I've built 342 feet of shelves in my apartment. They would have fit
all the books I stored for the five years since I left my last digs.
I tried very hard to refrain from acquiring, but people give me
books, and the flesh is weak. So I disposed of over a thousand books
to a local used book store for $300 dollars. None were worth a lot,
many I'd never read again (or in some cases for the first time. There
was a whole box of missionary magazines from the 1840s, reports from
remote regions. Early anthro, right? Wrong. Not too many of those
guys were particularly observant. Books once thought classics that
would have been fun to read but who has time, so I'll probably go to
my grave not having read The Rise of the Dutch Republic. Books I
really love but only keep because I really love them--not hard to
find another pb of Gatsby when the urge strikes. The result--I can
shelve all my books, but not one more, and they keep coming. And then
there are those seven boxes of books that do have commercial value,
enshrined under my bed. I have dreams of a house without books.
At 04:05 AM 6/26/2010, you wrote:
>We have approx 140 feet of bookshelves full to bursting with books
>stacked in front of books and horizontally on top of others. If I
>can ever get some of the heavier stuff (non-book) moved to free some
>wall space we will soon (six months??) have another 70 feet of
>shelves. This is just to take books we have now and doesn't include
>the stock shelves for the Press, at least another 120 feet plus
>boxes in the hallway and under my bedroom window. All in a
>mid-terraced house in Darlington.
>Why do we do it?
>
>Roger Collett
>Arrowhead Press
>http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
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>"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>Jules de Gaultier
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Alison Croggon" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 7:21 AM
>Subject: Re: how to organise your books
>
>
>>Actually, we're moving just down the road from where we are. I like
>>the western suburbs.
>>
>>Now up to 57 boxes and 12 bookshelves left to go. Jesus. Glad we
>>started early. There's everything else in the house as well.
>>
>>x
>>
>>On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 10:01 +1000, Alison Croggon wrote:
>>>>I'm moving house. I only just realised how many books we have. Daniel
>>>>has packed 30 boxes already, and that's only the shed.
>>>
>>>So the rumours are true, Alison, you're moving to Narrabri, a national
>>>centre of innovation, except not the vet and not the council will help
>>>me with the three generations of cats taking over my back garden and
>>>studio.
>>>
>>>
>>>--
>>>have chronic fatigue syndrome so may be delayed in reply or brain fog weird
>>>
>>>just to let you know that's all, Chris Jones.
>>>
>>>Blog: http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
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>>Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>>Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
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>of California Press).
>http://go.ucpress.edu/WholeIsland
>
>"Not since the 1982 publication of Paul Auster's Random House Book
>of Twentieth Century French Poetry has a bilingual anthology so
>effectively broadened the sense of poetic terrain outside the United
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