Today I was in my basement where I have the monster homemade bookcase that acts as my everlasting archive of tomes once bought and perhaps read. As I was looking at this collection of over 1,000 books, I realized that the vast majority of them are over 10 years old and some over 20 years old. There are plenty which are even showing that age, getting musty and yellowed. So I decided to start culling my flock.
My books fall into several tags:
- Books which I never read.
The culling will go like this:
- Books in categories 1 and 2 will be noted and donated to the library or given to a used bookseller.
Note that all of this applies only to paperback books. So far, I don't feel the need to eliminate any of my hardbacks, of which most are college textbooks and other similar books or references.