{"id":2944,"date":"2013-09-15T19:58:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T23:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=2944"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:28:54","slug":"36558-rnd-2-backsliding-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/36558-rnd-2-backsliding-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"365+#58: Rnd 2 -Backsliding on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Days-365+58-3-books.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2946\" alt=\"Days 365+58 3 books\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Days-365+58-3-books-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Can you ever have too many inspirational books? Yes! Recently I was very proud of myself book-wise. I found 3 fine inspirational books from which I had consumed enough relevant inspiration that I was willing to part with them. I felt even better about finding a good home for them \u2013 a local coffee shop that has a small library of meditative type books. I contributed my books. It\u2019s especially satisfying to find just the right home for things I want to give away. I felt virtuous.<\/p>\n<p>But last weekend I was visiting my publisher (Loyola Press) in Chicago and they gave me a gift bag of 8 books. \u201cHere, we\u2019d like you to have copies of the other books that are coming out in the same season as your <i>Blessed by Less<\/i> book.\u201d How kind and generous. They all look like good reads, but now I have a net gain of 5 books not counting several that have been on my nightstand waiting for attention for too long.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm. I\u2019m remembering my own advice about pruning my books in my blog entries starting with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1292\">Days 295-301 Book Criteria<\/a>. To summarize,<\/p>\n<p>I gave away:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Obsolete text books (that\u2019s almost all of them)<\/li>\n<li>Novels (since once I knew the story, I wouldn\u2019t be re-reading them)<\/li>\n<li>Most information that I could now pretty easily get online<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I kept:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children\u2019s books for reading to visiting kids<\/li>\n<li>Feference books that I preferred to have hard copies of for, well, reference<\/li>\n<li>Prayer and Inspirational books that I might need for comfort<\/li>\n<li>Books I use in my work<\/li>\n<li>Foreign phrase\/dictionary\/guide books<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous books that I just didn\u2019t want to part with<\/li>\n<li>Photo albums<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure I could have been more ruthless with the books but that was my first round of pruning. I figured that after awhile I would probably go back and find more that I really didn\u2019t need especially with more and more being available online.<\/p>\n<p>Arrrgh! And now here I am adding to my book collection instead of subtracting from it. Well, I suppose there are worse vices.<\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;m wondering<\/b> \u2013 What kind of books are hardest for you to let go of? What\u2019s easiest? Has the internet or digital books helped? How?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you ever have too many inspirational books? Yes! Recently I was very proud of myself book-wise. I found 3 fine inspirational books from which I had consumed enough relevant inspiration that I was willing to part with them. 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