![]() When I was a little girl I collected every single Nancy Drew and Trixie Beldon book. Serious or casual, catalogued and carefully stored or toppling piles in the living room, they have meaning to the person who collected them.Ī complete series might be a collection. The Collector.īig or small groups of books, from huge libraries to small selections with very personal meaning are called collections. These too might be a little easier to move into the Maybe Let Go pile. You may like to categorise them as old acquaintances that you’ve lost touch with. They become One Of Your Books, a collective identity. They get added to your collection like the Borg assimilating another life form. Then there will be books that are nice to have, just in case you need them.Īnd there will be books that are in your house simply because you bought them. Books you are fond of, that you love to flick through, or just touch. There will be books that you love with all your heart. A sign that they might be a smidge easier to sort into the Let Go pile. If you have books that are unused, it’s a sign. Don’t you feel sorry for them, all untouched and gritty? Signs that those books are not used and have not been used for a looooooooooong time. ![]() (How many years has it been since you turned those pages?)ĭust and double rows are signs. Maybe you have fluff bunnies down the back of your shelves, and what seems like inches of dust covering your least used books. Then you have to move the front row of paperbacks to expose the spines of the back row. To read them, if you can remember what the titles are because you can’t actually see them, you have to move a photo of your Gran when she was young, three cat ornaments and an old postcard from Paris. No dust has ever sullied their pages, nor foxing dared to show it’s spotty face.īut you may have books that are behind other books. ![]()
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