Comments on: Lighter Bookshelf http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/ Eric Muntz sayin stuff Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:10:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JoeMagarac http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-319 JoeMagarac Fri, 23 May 2008 19:31:26 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-319 I have your copy of Kavalier and Clay...Jol gave it to me. Great book by the way!!! I have your copy of Kavalier and Clay…Jol gave it to me. Great book by the way!!!

]]> By: Eric http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Eric Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:34:37 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-291 Awesome, Jim, I guess finding a place for the nearly 60 books you read each year would be difficult. Organizing 1200 CDs gives me wicked anxiety... did you alphabetize? Leave room for newcomers? Put together an index indicating which CD folder has which albums? The anxiety of such a task is way too much for me. Plus, I'm laaaaazy. Awesome, Jim, I guess finding a place for the nearly 60 books you read each year would be difficult. Organizing 1200 CDs gives me wicked anxiety… did you alphabetize? Leave room for newcomers? Put together an index indicating which CD folder has which albums? The anxiety of such a task is way too much for me. Plus, I’m laaaaazy.

]]> By: Jim http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Jim Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:53:14 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-290 No real hair pulling or teeth gnashing on this end. Not everyone wants to be loaded down with hundreds of pounds of books they will likely never read again. Since Amy and I have so little room nowadays for books (our shelves are a little too full), I go through our books about once a year and try to thin the herd a bit. This usually just involves picking out the books I have read and either didn't like or was indifferent to and giving them to Goodwill or to folks who I think would enjoy them. As for the CDs, we took all of them out of their jewel cases and stuck the disks and accompanying liner booklets in big CD albums. Cutting around 1,200 CDs from the shelves freed up a lot of room for more books. No real hair pulling or teeth gnashing on this end. Not everyone wants to be loaded down with hundreds of pounds of books they will likely never read again. Since Amy and I have so little room nowadays for books (our shelves are a little too full), I go through our books about once a year and try to thin the herd a bit. This usually just involves picking out the books I have read and either didn’t like or was indifferent to and giving them to Goodwill or to folks who I think would enjoy them.

As for the CDs, we took all of them out of their jewel cases and stuck the disks and accompanying liner booklets in big CD albums. Cutting around 1,200 CDs from the shelves freed up a lot of room for more books.

]]> By: Eric http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Eric Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:49:48 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-289 Sorry, Jol, I should have added more context to that - didn't mean to point blame all over the place. I'm actually very happy with how it worked out. Dan - the CDs are next!! I wonder if I should get my ebay on with them? Last year I purged the DVD collection, even getting rid of Simpsons DVDs! Sorry, Jol, I should have added more context to that – didn’t mean to point blame all over the place. I’m actually very happy with how it worked out.

Dan – the CDs are next!! I wonder if I should get my ebay on with them? Last year I purged the DVD collection, even getting rid of Simpsons DVDs!

]]> By: Dan http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Dan Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:34:48 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-288 Good for you! I don't think I could do that, though. My books are like limbs -- getting rid of them would be like cutting off my arms or something. My CDs, on the other hand, have got to go... Good for you! I don’t think I could do that, though. My books are like limbs — getting rid of them would be like cutting off my arms or something. My CDs, on the other hand, have got to go…

]]> By: jol http://www.projectminer.com/2008/02/04/lighter-bookshelf/comment-page-1/#comment-287 jol Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:24:21 +0000 http://www.projectminer.com/?p=75#comment-287 mmmmm BlogJet. Boo on the $43 it costs for a single user license. Seems pricey for a small tool but it helps me a lot. pgrj. I am 99.9% positive I passed along Kavalier and Clay to Waldner, who tried to return it but you didn't really care at that point if you got it back and thus he passed it along to a relative of his. Still, good book. mmmmm BlogJet. Boo on the $43 it costs for a single user license. Seems pricey for a small tool but it helps me a lot.

pgrj. I am 99.9% positive I passed along Kavalier and Clay to Waldner, who tried to return it but you didn’t really care at that point if you got it back and thus he passed it along to a relative of his. Still, good book.

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