I should read these books.
No really, I should, because I'm afraid I'm falling into that trap of "having pretty shelves but nothing to read." If I wanted to read, hell, I'll go to the library to read. Why sully my nicely organized (*cough*) bookshelves?
(This whole post is a sham, as I do not now, nor have I ever had organized bookshelves. I prefer the disheveled intellectual look in my decor as well as in my dress.)
Someone recently told me she'd never read library books. "Too dirty," she said. "All those fingers touching them." Funny, I never gave it much thought, even when I find those mysterious, gauzy smears on the pages. (Peanut Butter? Steak sauce? Horror or horrors, blood?) No, the library is too valuable to even consider it. But I still I have the habit of over-buying, especially at used book stores.
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My husband and I had to finally organize our books. We basically assigned an area to a subject "travel" and "science" and "these are the books I've had since I was a kid" and so on. It's not perfect, but it has made it easier to find our books!
I finally decided that if I buy a book, I've got to get rid of a book. I take the best to a resale store that gives me credit toward new books (YAH!), BookCross some, and give the rest to Goodwill.
I've finally gotten rid of all the piles of books that were sitting on my floor.
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