Comments on: BOTNS Books Podcast #53: Piles and Piles of Books http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html illuminating conversation about books and reading Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: CarolK http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-4558 CarolK Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:38:59 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-4558 I'm a bit late on this discussion but still would like to contribute. I'm fortunate to have wall to wall book cases in our living room and book cases in two other rooms so can hold a lot of books. As I get older and it gets easier to maintain lists, I wonder at my need to keep all these books. It is comforting to see them and if I ever got quaranteened I'd have plenty to read but still it seems a bit cluttersome to have all these books. So I've decided to set some free. When finished with a book, if I liked it, I either pass it on to a friend, offer it free on my blog or add it to our Friends book sale at work. If I didn't like it, it will end up at the book sale as someone else may like it better than I. For my back log, I am making progress in culling out the books. My mantra is get rid of one each day, sell it, give it away. Hopefully this will help me if I ever have to move. I'd have to get rid of them quickly and would make rash decisions. As for end of year lists, take a look at this one compiled by Neil Hollands, Librarian, Williamsburt Regional Library, Virginia. http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2010/03/18/best-of-2009-megalist-is-complete/ Neil "compiled the best of the year votes of 140 different authoritative sources into a spreadsheet containing mentions of nearly 1700 different books published in the United States during 2009." You'll certainly find much to add to your list here. I’m a bit late on this discussion but still would like to contribute. I’m fortunate to have wall to wall book cases in our living room and book cases in two other rooms so can hold a lot of books. As I get older and it gets easier to maintain lists, I wonder at my need to keep all these books. It is comforting to see them and if I ever got quaranteened I’d have plenty to read but still it seems a bit cluttersome to have all these books. So I’ve decided to set some free. When finished with a book, if I liked it, I either pass it on to a friend, offer it free on my blog or add it to our Friends book sale at work. If I didn’t like it, it will end up at the book sale as someone else may like it better than I. For my back log, I am making progress in culling out the books. My mantra is get rid of one each day, sell it, give it away. Hopefully this will help me if I ever have to move. I’d have to get rid of them quickly and would make rash decisions.

As for end of year lists, take a look at this one compiled by Neil Hollands, Librarian, Williamsburt Regional Library, Virginia.
http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2010/03/18/best-of-2009-megalist-is-complete/
Neil “compiled the best of the year votes of 140 different authoritative sources into a spreadsheet containing mentions of nearly 1700 different books published in the United States during 2009.”

You’ll certainly find much to add to your list here.

]]> By: CarolK http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-7246 CarolK Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:38:00 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-7246 I'm a bit late on this discussion but still would like to contribute. I'm fortunate to have wall to wall book cases in our living room and book cases in two other rooms so can hold a lot of books. As I get older and it gets easier to maintain lists, I wonder at my need to keep all these books. It is comforting to see them and if I ever got quaranteened I'd have plenty to read but still it seems a bit cluttersome to have all these books. So I've decided to set some free. When finished with a book, if I liked it, I either pass it on to a friend, offer it free on my blog or add it to our Friends book sale at work. If I didn't like it, it will end up at the book sale as someone else may like it better than I. For my back log, I am making progress in culling out the books. My mantra is get rid of one each day, sell it, give it away. Hopefully this will help me if I ever have to move. I'd have to get rid of them quickly and would make rash decisions. As for end of year lists, take a look at this one compiled by Neil Hollands, Librarian, Williamsburt Regional Library, Virginia. http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2010/03/18/best-of-2009-megalist-is-complete/ Neil "compiled the best of the year votes of 140 different authoritative sources into a spreadsheet containing mentions of nearly 1700 different books published in the United States during 2009." You'll certainly find much to add to your list here. I’m a bit late on this discussion but still would like to contribute. I’m fortunate to have wall to wall book cases in our living room and book cases in two other rooms so can hold a lot of books. As I get older and it gets easier to maintain lists, I wonder at my need to keep all these books. It is comforting to see them and if I ever got quaranteened I’d have plenty to read but still it seems a bit cluttersome to have all these books. So I’ve decided to set some free. When finished with a book, if I liked it, I either pass it on to a friend, offer it free on my blog or add it to our Friends book sale at work. If I didn’t like it, it will end up at the book sale as someone else may like it better than I. For my back log, I am making progress in culling out the books. My mantra is get rid of one each day, sell it, give it away. Hopefully this will help me if I ever have to move. I’d have to get rid of them quickly and would make rash decisions.

As for end of year lists, take a look at this one compiled by Neil Hollands, Librarian, Williamsburt Regional Library, Virginia.
http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2010/03/18/best-of-2009-megalist-is-complete/
Neil “compiled the best of the year votes of 140 different authoritative sources into a spreadsheet containing mentions of nearly 1700 different books published in the United States during 2009.”

You’ll certainly find much to add to your list here.

]]> By: Melissa http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-1729 Melissa Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:11:37 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-1729 I'm so glad that you read and enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird Michael! It's one of my favorite books of all time. Atticus is my inspiration for what I do for work. I’m so glad that you read and enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird Michael! It’s one of my favorite books of all time. Atticus is my inspiration for what I do for work.

]]> By: Melissa http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-7245 Melissa Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:11:00 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-7245 I'm so glad that you read and enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird Michael! It's one of my favorite books of all time. Atticus is my inspiration for what I do for work. I’m so glad that you read and enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird Michael! It’s one of my favorite books of all time. Atticus is my inspiration for what I do for work.

]]> By: Melissa W. http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-1706 Melissa W. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:36:53 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-1706 Since I live on my own and can do this because I have a regular closet and a walk-in, I have turned my walk-in into my own personal library. After years of having books in various places, I can finally see each and every book (except for those that I have sent to others to read because I knew I would never get to them) that I own. Because I have a collection of series and Penguin Classics, I grouped them together. I have currently organized all my fiction in alphabetical order and plan to organize my non-fiction in the correct Dewey location. The library cataloguer (I worked as cataloguer for a school district a number of years back and really enjoy that aspect of library work) in me wants to put spine labels on each of the non-fiction, so that I know precisely exactly where each book goes. But the fact of the matter is this: it is really time consuming and one does have to decide how detailed one wants to get with how many numbers after the decimal one wants to go. Since I live on my own and can do this because I have a regular closet and a walk-in, I have turned my walk-in into my own personal library. After years of having books in various places, I can finally see each and every book (except for those that I have sent to others to read because I knew I would never get to them) that I own. Because I have a collection of series and Penguin Classics, I grouped them together. I have currently organized all my fiction in alphabetical order and plan to organize my non-fiction in the correct Dewey location. The library cataloguer (I worked as cataloguer for a school district a number of years back and really enjoy that aspect of library work) in me wants to put spine labels on each of the non-fiction, so that I know precisely exactly where each book goes. But the fact of the matter is this: it is really time consuming and one does have to decide how detailed one wants to get with how many numbers after the decimal one wants to go.

]]> By: Melissa W. http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-7220 Melissa W. Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:36:00 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-7220 Since I live on my own and can do this because I have a regular closet and a walk-in, I have turned my walk-in into my own personal library. After years of having books in various places, I can finally see each and every book (except for those that I have sent to others to read because I knew I would never get to them) that I own. Because I have a collection of series and Penguin Classics, I grouped them together. I have currently organized all my fiction in alphabetical order and plan to organize my non-fiction in the correct Dewey location. The library cataloguer (I worked as cataloguer for a school district a number of years back and really enjoy that aspect of library work) in me wants to put spine labels on each of the non-fiction, so that I know precisely exactly where each book goes. But the fact of the matter is this: it is really time consuming and one does have to decide how detailed one wants to get with how many numbers after the decimal one wants to go. Since I live on my own and can do this because I have a regular closet and a walk-in, I have turned my walk-in into my own personal library. After years of having books in various places, I can finally see each and every book (except for those that I have sent to others to read because I knew I would never get to them) that I own. Because I have a collection of series and Penguin Classics, I grouped them together. I have currently organized all my fiction in alphabetical order and plan to organize my non-fiction in the correct Dewey location. The library cataloguer (I worked as cataloguer for a school district a number of years back and really enjoy that aspect of library work) in me wants to put spine labels on each of the non-fiction, so that I know precisely exactly where each book goes. But the fact of the matter is this: it is really time consuming and one does have to decide how detailed one wants to get with how many numbers after the decimal one wants to go.

]]> By: Rebecca http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-1728 Rebecca Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:59:24 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-1728 I don't know whether to be in lust with this picture, or overwhelmed. If you keep it to re-read it, how do you find the book in order to do so? My ADD mind is doing flips lol I don’t know whether to be in lust with this picture, or overwhelmed. If you keep it to re-read it, how do you find the book in order to do so? My ADD mind is doing flips lol

]]> By: Rebecca http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-7244 Rebecca Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:59:00 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-7244 I don't know whether to be in lust with this picture, or overwhelmed. If you keep it to re-read it, how do you find the book in order to do so? My ADD mind is doing flips lol I don’t know whether to be in lust with this picture, or overwhelmed. If you keep it to re-read it, how do you find the book in order to do so? My ADD mind is doing flips lol

]]> By: readnponder http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-1727 readnponder Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:19 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-1727 Too Many Books My husband (a non-reader) has instituted a policy called “bibliostasis,” which means that for every new book that comes in, an old book must go out, thus keeping the number of books in the house constant. I can’t say that I adhere to the policy all that well. The books come in one-by-one every couple of weeks. They tend to go out in boxes once or twice a year. I usually donate finished novels and books I could readily find in a public library if I wish to read them again. I keep books in which I took lots of notes and books that I will use as reference, plus my top favorites. Finding Space for Books Part of the rationale for bibliostasis is that you don’t need to keep adding bookshelves. Like Michael’s, my house has lots of windows. Upon occasion, I have resorted to putting bookshelves against the back wall of closets. Idea for the Future I am a fairly new listener, so you may have already done this one. I would be curious to know how many books people have going at one time. One? Three? A dozen? Is each book of a different genre? Are you able to keep the plots and characters separate? Too Many Books

My husband (a non-reader) has instituted a policy called “bibliostasis,” which means that for every new book that comes in, an old book must go out, thus keeping the number of books in the house constant.

I can’t say that I adhere to the policy all that well. The books come in one-by-one every couple of weeks. They tend to go out in boxes once or twice a year.

I usually donate finished novels and books I could readily find in a public library if I wish to read them again. I keep books in which I took lots of notes and books that I will use as reference, plus my top favorites.

Finding Space for Books

Part of the rationale for bibliostasis is that you don’t need to keep adding bookshelves. Like Michael’s, my house has lots of windows. Upon occasion, I have resorted to putting bookshelves against the back wall of closets.

Idea for the Future

I am a fairly new listener, so you may have already done this one. I would be curious to know how many books people have going at one time. One? Three? A dozen? Is each book of a different genre? Are you able to keep the plots and characters separate?

]]> By: readnponder http://booksonthenightstand.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles.html/comment-page-1#comment-7243 readnponder Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:00 +0000 http://botns.booksellersblog.com/2009/11/botns-books-podcast-53-piles-and-piles-of-books.html#comment-7243 Too Many Books My husband (a non-reader) has instituted a policy called “bibliostasis,” which means that for every new book that comes in, an old book must go out, thus keeping the number of books in the house constant. I can’t say that I adhere to the policy all that well. The books come in one-by-one every couple of weeks. They tend to go out in boxes once or twice a year. I usually donate finished novels and books I could readily find in a public library if I wish to read them again. I keep books in which I took lots of notes and books that I will use as reference, plus my top favorites. Finding Space for Books Part of the rationale for bibliostasis is that you don’t need to keep adding bookshelves. Like Michael’s, my house has lots of windows. Upon occasion, I have resorted to putting bookshelves against the back wall of closets. Idea for the Future I am a fairly new listener, so you may have already done this one. I would be curious to know how many books people have going at one time. One? Three? A dozen? Is each book of a different genre? Are you able to keep the plots and characters separate? Too Many Books

My husband (a non-reader) has instituted a policy called “bibliostasis,” which means that for every new book that comes in, an old book must go out, thus keeping the number of books in the house constant.

I can’t say that I adhere to the policy all that well. The books come in one-by-one every couple of weeks. They tend to go out in boxes once or twice a year.

I usually donate finished novels and books I could readily find in a public library if I wish to read them again. I keep books in which I took lots of notes and books that I will use as reference, plus my top favorites.

Finding Space for Books

Part of the rationale for bibliostasis is that you don’t need to keep adding bookshelves. Like Michael’s, my house has lots of windows. Upon occasion, I have resorted to putting bookshelves against the back wall of closets.

Idea for the Future

I am a fairly new listener, so you may have already done this one. I would be curious to know how many books people have going at one time. One? Three? A dozen? Is each book of a different genre? Are you able to keep the plots and characters separate?

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