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.
They're very heavy.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Some years back, Lynda and I hired a guy to build a floor-to-ceiling
> bookshelf
> for our apartment (rolling ladder extra). We may have even thought of
> getting
> our books in order--you know, alphabetically by author and title. Well, our
> craftsman forgot to allow, when he measured, for the width of the shelves
> themselves, so we reverted to what was always my preferred arrangement--
> books thrown onto the shelves helter-skelter, lying down if they wouldn't
> fit
> vertically. While this, of course, made for strange shelf-mates, a clumping
> effect set in that, over several years, brought related books into the same
> vicinities. Hard to find what we were looking for sometimes, but easy to
> find surprises.
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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>
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