{"id":1292,"date":"2011-01-02T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:35:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:35:28","slug":"days-295-301-books-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-295-301-books-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 295-301: Book Criteria &#8211; Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Days-295-301-Books-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1293\" title=\"Days 295-301- Books 1\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Days-295-301-Books-1-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve procrastinated long enough. It\u2019s now time to tackle the books in our house. I counted 11 bookcases (not counting the 2 in Jim\u2019s office and 3 that primarily have artifacts on them, not books) and 1,339 books at last count. Surely I can find quite a few to give away although it may be painful. The challenge is to decide what criteria to use for what to keep and what to give to friends, the Friends of the Library, or a friendly used book store. First I asked the friends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A young adult quickly answered, \u201cGive them all away, then re-buy any you really want for an e-reader.\u201d I\u2019m not quite ready for going cold turkey like that.<\/li>\n<li>Another friend said \u201cOnly save books that have information you can\u2019t get online.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Several people commented that many people use what I consider obsolete books for \u201cstaging.\u201d It can make a home more saleable or lend status to a coffee table \u2013 if you haven\u2019t given it away.<\/li>\n<li>One of my own criteria was to get rid of novels that I\u2019ll never read again and college text books. (40 year old texts are of little value to my every day work.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I decided to tackle the easiest book case first \u2013 to get me in training. It had 155 books \u2013 many of them novels. I chose 64 to give away. There; that wasn\u2019t so hard. We\u2019ll see what next week brings.<\/p>\n<p>PS to the nosy: Click on the photo to enlarge and see the titles I&#8217;m giving away.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Update: Check out<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.becomingminimalist.com\/breaking-the-sentimental-attachment-to-books\/\">Breaking the Sentimental Attachment to Books<\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">on Josh Becker&#8217;s <em>Becoming Minimalist<\/em> blog for additional ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve procrastinated long enough. It\u2019s now time to tackle the books in our house. I counted 11 bookcases (not counting the 2 in Jim\u2019s office and 3 that primarily have artifacts on them, not books) and 1,339 books at last count. Surely I can find quite a few to give away although it may be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1296,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}