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...
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Comments
But how did you organize the books?
(A Hodgell and a Hughart, huh? Those are reasonably hard to find.)
Posted by: Aaron Bergman | July 6, 2008 6:36 PM
Dude. Ebay.
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | July 6, 2008 6:55 PM
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.
Posted by: Kate Nepveu | July 6, 2008 7:03 PM
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.
Posted by: Ron | July 6, 2008 7:30 PM
So are the shelves adjustable, to eventually allow those Absolute Sandmen to stand upright?
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski | July 6, 2008 8:55 PM
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 . . .
Posted by: Kate Nepveu | July 6, 2008 9:23 PM
Is it just the pictures, or is the ceiling in this room really low?
Posted by: mollishka | July 6, 2008 10:27 PM
I want the free books too. But now I'm in Melbourne
Posted by: matterwaves | July 6, 2008 11:15 PM
Oh... no free physics textbooks for the incoming graduate student. :(
Posted by: Mike Saelim | July 6, 2008 11:25 PM
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.
Posted by: Dave Munger | July 7, 2008 10:42 AM
@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).
Posted by: Eric Lund | July 7, 2008 11:00 AM
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.
Posted by: Jamie Bowden | July 7, 2008 12:37 PM
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.
Posted by: Scott Spiegelberg | July 8, 2008 10:31 AM
I couldn't help thinking of this Warren Miller New Yorker cartoon from 12/16/67:
http://www.kaleberg.com/images2008/crazypeople.jpg
Posted by: Kaleberg | July 12, 2008 11:27 PM