Kate and I are giving away books.
Not all of them, mind, and they’re not totally free– you need to pay shipping– but a couple hundred duplicate/ disliked/ never-going-to-get-read books are being discarded. If you would like any of them, there are simple instructions on Kate’s LiveJournal.
Don’t worry that this will leave us bereft, though:
That’s the first section of the hardcover collection, which continues:
(that’s the same wall of shelves as the first picture, from the other end…), and ends on the other wall:
Note the ample space for new additions on most if not all of the shelves. Yay, adequate shelf space!
And many big thanks to my parents, who stopped by today to help us move and shelve all those books.
There are also two full cases of unread books upstairs, and several hundred paperbacks. We’re good for reading material for a while yet…
But how did you organize the books?
(A Hodgell and a Hughart, huh? Those are reasonably hard to find.)
Dude. Ebay.
Aaron: fiction alphabetical by author, and a loose mix of chronological & alphabetical within author.
Nonfiction according to a scheme Chad devised.
Romeo: too much work.
After the last set of pictures, this one gave me an image of a fully ionized heavy nucleus, all the electron shells filled suddenly, then a huge burst of energy materializing as books being shipped across the globe.
So are the shelves adjustable, to eventually allow those Absolute Sandmen to stand upright?
No, the shelves aren’t adjustable. The _Absolute Sandman_ volumes will stand upright on the bottom shelf, which is tallest, but all the other Gaiman books are at the top of that shelf, so . . .
Is it just the pictures, or is the ceiling in this room really low?
I want the free books too. But now I’m in Melbourne
Oh… no free physics textbooks for the incoming graduate student. 🙁
Those books are like your life’s story — I love the wedding guides, and travel guides to all the places you’ve visited. Very cool idea.
@mollishka: I count seven shelves from top to bottom, each of which is roughly 12 inches high (as Kate says, the bottom shelf is a little higher). That gives a ballpark ceiling height of 7.5 feet, which is the same as the ceiling height in my house (and many others I have been in).
I have a Jordan Shelf too! Yours lacks ‘A New Spring’ though, which I picked up in hard cover for $4.99 on the clearance shelf a couple years ago now.
I lost all of my Jordan books when my basement flooded a month ago. Can’t say I’m that broken up, though, as I’ve discovered the wonders of the Malazan Empire.
I couldn’t help thinking of this Warren Miller New Yorker cartoon from 12/16/67:
http://www.kaleberg.com/images2008/crazypeople.jpg