Subject: [WSFA] Books You Can Live Without
From: sjvn <sjvn at vna1.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:06:38 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

As I find myself doing painful surgery on my library in preparation of
my move to a smaller house, I happened across this collection of essays
on how to cull one's library.

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books-you-can-live-without/

There are some good thoughts here, but the advice that calls most to my
own heart is Joshua Ferris' concluding paragraph: "Books are notes from
the field, bound and domesticated, life brought into narrow focus. Get
rid of a book? No way. Every one is a brick keeping the building
standing.Books are my life. I leave and come back, and the books I find
there tell me I\342\200\231m home."

Ah well, be that as it may, the guide to OS/2 2.1 is still going out the
door.

Steven
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Editor-in-Chief, Practical Technology, http://www.practical-tech.com
QOTD: "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections
must first be overcome." - Samuel Johnson