Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:50:52 -0500
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Books You Can Live Without
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

sjvn wrote:
> 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-wi=
thout/
>
> 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=E2=80=99m home."
>
> Ah well, be that as it may, the guide to OS/2 2.1 is still going out th=
e
> door.

Same here - books are the furniture for between my ears; and a lot are to=
ols.
The only things I'd get rid of are way outdated and useless, like a book =
of
lists that's 20 years old.

  mark

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