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How about just a few hundred? At 04:45 AM 6/26/2010, you wrote: >Mark, > >A house without books is not a thing I'd dream about. Couldn't >imagine life without books. > >Roger > > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2010 9:25 AM >Subject: Re: how to organise your books > > >>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. > >Announcing The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University >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 >States and also created a superb collection of foreign poems in >English. There is nothing else like it." John Palattella in The >Nation