Re: Can it be?

On 6/19/12 12:20 PM, Bernard Peek wrote:
> On 19/06/12 18:10, Sibyl Smirl wrote:
>> On 6/19/12 11:50 AM, Bernard Peek wrote:
>>> On 19/06/12 14:56, Donna Scanlon wrote:
>>>> In other news, I started CPAP therapy (is THAT what "rested" is
>>>> supposed to feel like?) and we're trying to rescue our house from
>>>> turning into an episode of Hoarders. That's about it.
>>>
>>> If you need any help with that let me know. My wife has a very large
>>> collection of books about de-cluttering.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Which add to the book clutter, no doubt! I kind of have that problem....
>
> Not very much. I have about 4,000 books.
>

I haven't tried to count or guesstimate mine. Even measuring and
totaling the feet of shelf space would be difficult, besides the fact
that books are many different thicknesses and stacked on shelves many
different ways (eg, paperbacks, which I have sometimes literally stacked
on bookshelves, up to the height of the next shelf, double-shelved and
taking up six inches of shelf space). Those shelves which are deep
enough are all double-shelved, some of them with the bigger hardcovers
in front of paperbacks. And I have way too many books for the shelves.
I keep trying to take some that I know I'll never read again in
grocery bags to the used book store, and usually return with somewhat
fewer than the book store would keep (they reject a few, and I buy a few
while I'm there).

There's an amazing page on FaceBook called "No, I do NOT have too many
books!" with a collection of photographs startlingly reminiscent of my
house. But funny!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-I-do-NOT-have-too-many-books/272026873941

or

http://tinyurl.com/88zr6nk


You may need to be a FB member to see it. I don't know.


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