So, out of curiosity: how many feet of shelving does it take to hold 2309 books?
Feet, no idea. The full collection filled about 15 bookcases, some of them double-shelved.
And how many are you keeping?
Around 2700. (Frighteningly, most of the bookcases *still* look full.)
And how did you keep count???
a) Being married to a career librarian. b) LibraryThing. *Everything* went into LibraryThing.
Jane would frown down on me if I got rid of the books in an undisciplined fashion. So as I decide to remove them, I'm moving them to my "deaccessioned" list in LibraryThing, so I have a running tally of them. That's how I know that I'm getting rid of 2309 (plus miscellaneous magazines, journals and such), and keeping 2709 (plus the two bags of books that I've bought in the past two years but haven't yet catalogued, mostly from Mc and Moore's closing sale)...
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Date: 2012-09-28 02:41 am (UTC)Feet, no idea. The full collection filled about 15 bookcases, some of them double-shelved.
And how many are you keeping?
Around 2700. (Frighteningly, most of the bookcases *still* look full.)
And how did you keep count???
a) Being married to a career librarian.
b) LibraryThing. *Everything* went into LibraryThing.
Jane would frown down on me if I got rid of the books in an undisciplined fashion. So as I decide to remove them, I'm moving them to my "deaccessioned" list in LibraryThing, so I have a running tally of them. That's how I know that I'm getting rid of 2309 (plus miscellaneous magazines, journals and such), and keeping 2709 (plus the two bags of books that I've bought in the past two years but haven't yet catalogued, mostly from Mc and Moore's closing sale)...