Despite having a wall with five bookshelves (with books double stacked to boot!), I’m running out of space. The stacks are starting to build up on the floor by the bookshelves and being that my library is also my craft studio you can imagine the chaos that is my space. So this calls for some weeding of the books (sorry for the dark picture).
This means some of my shelf-sitters may just end up leaving the shelf. I think some of my longest shelf-sitters have been there for at least 10 years (probably more). I’m sure when I’m going through them I’ll probably think I just can’t part with a book that sounds that good. You’ve been through that yourself right?
My plan is to donate some books to the library, some are going to Half Price Books and some of my mysteries are going towards my mystery book group exchange (we have an exchange twice a year).
Of course you know why I’m making room on my shelves right? To add more to them! Haha…. How about you, are you running out of bookshelf space too? How long have you had some of your shelf-sitters?
I’m sure many booklovers have this bookshelf space all the time, hehe. I’ve donated quite a few to the library the last time, and I’ve also cut down on buying books lately so I think I’m OK at the moment. I’m now trying to read from my TBR pile instead of looking for more new releases, but it sure is hard!! ;-P
Yes, I deal with this problem over and over, again. In our new house, we have a room we call “the library” but I skidded to a halt when I ran out of room and we still have over a dozen boxes of books that haven’t even been opened!!! Insane! Because we decided to retire some cabinets that were filled with books and I didn’t want to double- or triple-shelf (the books in those cabinets were triple-shelved), I ran out of room very, very quickly. I’m going to have to go back and weed much more heavily. It’s a heck of a job and, yes, I do end up replacing them almost as quickly as I get rid of books. Kind of a never-ending battle but at least I don’t buy many books, anymore.
I got some new shelves a couple of Christmases ago, and at the same time I went through a massive purge. I have since been through a couple more massive purges, and donated to our library. And let’s not talk about the audio books! But as of right this minute, everything is on a shelf. It is a perpetual project!
Have fun going through you books. I always hate getting rid of some but then I quickly forget when I am happily putting new books in their place!
Melody – I know right? It is so hard not to keep adding to the pile of books! We’ll see how I do! I’ll have to keep you posted.
Bookfool, aka Nancy – Oh wow.. that is a bit insane 🙂 I feel like I do the weeding of the books at least twice a year but I must not be doing a very good job. Ha.
Sandy – Oh no, the audio books. Well at least I don’t have that problem. ha,ha… I think I need to do a massive purge too. Just let go of the books I really won’t read.
Stefanie – I have to keep that in mind… more books to be added 🙂