What I forgot to mention in my last posting was how many books we managed to weed out. Well, we don’t know exactly, but it’s probably about 500 or so.
We ought to know exactly. As we laboriously went through each box, we marked them off in our spreadsheet. Unfortunately, something weird happened to the spreadsheet about six boxes before we were done, and we lost most of this effort. (Note: we were editing the spreadsheet in OpenOffice on Linux. This may have been an unfortunate accident…but maybe not. On Saturday evening, we almost lost a lot of work when Linux seemed to freeze up entirely. The hard disks were thrashing like crazy, so something was happening–just not in the GUI, which was effectively dead. Yes, I’m having some murmerings of dissatisfaction with this year’s Linux.)
So anyway, we’ll need to go through the boxes of discards (seven of them, plus a large Ikea paper bag) in order to cross them off our list. This isn’t actually a bad thing, because we also need to sort them according to how we want to get rid of them. Some are eBay-able, we think, while some are destined to return to the great charity shop in the sky (or Barnardos, whichever is closer).
I guess that’s next weekend’s activities taken care of, then.
If you are disposing of books I might be interested in you disposing of some of them in my direction… depending of course on just exactly what you are getting rid of.
If you can hold off on getting rid of them for another month I can even collect them when I visit:-)