Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:20:31 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Books You Can Live Without
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

> sjvn <sjvn at vna1.com> 12/29/2009 10:06 AM >>>
>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*m home."
>
>Ah well, be that as it may, the guide to OS/2 2.1 is still going out
the
>door.

Should you - or anyone - be planning to come to or pass through
Baltimore: http://bookthing.org/ .  They take pretty much any book.
They're a 501(c)3, so it's tax deductible.   For those who may visited
Tales From the White Hart on Greenmount, they're about 5 or so blocks
south of where the store use to be.

mjw