>>>>>>I always wanted a study so when we decided to buy a house we came across this house with the huge game room and 4 bedrooms, etc. The builder needed to unload the house and offered it to us for several thousand less than my appraiser valued it at. I finally had place to put all my books, etc in one place.
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>>>>>>We also had a small formal dining room that I converted to a music room and put my keyboard, piano, guitars, banjo etc into. My sons also moved their different instruments into it as well.
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>>>>>>I started off with SciFi and have branched into several different types of fantasy since then. I like the genre because it doesn't always go the way you are thinking it will.
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>>>>>I use the other arrangement. Bookcases all over the house, books piled on every flat surface including three and four foot high piles against the walls on hallway floors, and boxes piled up in the basement. There are only two real problems with this arrangement. First, I can't find anything, and secondly, I have four cats, so I have to keep re-piling the books.
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>>>>It isn't quite as extreme here but I also have piles of books. One of the ongoing projects is to box up the ones that are read and no longer needed and trudge them over to the town library. Without question several hundred pounds of them have gone that way already, hopefully to more deserving homes.
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>>>I totally agree. What's the point in keeping hundreds of books that will never be read agan?
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>>How do you know they will never be read again? You can only know for sure when you die. ;)
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>Because, judging by the no. of bookcases, and the estimated no. of reading hours left in Tim's life (even if he's still fairly young), and given that the remaining reading hours will probably most be used on new literature (i.e. not in libris), knowing from the evo that he's a keen reader and avid collector, I think I can fairly confidently say they won't get read again. Just a waste of space.
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A couple of years ago I came to the same realization about my allegedly TBR books -- that some of them I will never get to. The one that bothered me for some reason was "Remembrance of Things Past", which I have in a nice edition. Have had it for about 25 years and have never gotten more than a few chapters into it. (For those who don't know it, it's about 3000 pages long). Reading it was something I wanted to do before I die and now I doubt it will happen.