Sunday, July 28, 2013

Spring cleaning is long overdue

This—barely a fraction of what needs to be sorted
I'm even afraid of taking of a picture of my entire room. I will die.
My room's currently a mess. Books everywhere. Dust mites must be having a field day. I've filled up all my shelves to the brim. So now most of the books that I've recently bought are in piles all over the floor.

It's about time I have new bookshelves made. Friends keep telling me that I should have bookshelves covered in glass, so that I don't have to keep dusting the books. But I have a thing against glass covers. They don't let the books "breathe."

Anyway, before the year ends, I hope to sort out everything. Maybe even have a rough catalog of all the books in my collection. Now my brain's ticking on how I should categorize everything. By genre? Alphabetically by author? By color? Hardcovers in one section?

Happy problems.

5 comments:

Overthinker Palaboy said...

Masayang problema nga :)

Kaz said...

I feel your pain. I REALLY need to buy another bookcase and there IS room on the wall over by the dining table to add another one the same. I'm just not game to say it out loud to the long-suffering DB, who will then build it from the flatpack!

Once upon a time, I had an incredibly detailed catalogue of my children's literature collection - you've seen the pics, you know many of them are out of print collectibles. I did it by author, on a spreadsheet, with columns for the publisher, edition, condition, EVERYTHING!! It took forever to get done, but it was both very cool and scary to realise just what was on those shelves!! There have been many culls since and I've not kept it up. I may do again at some point when we're more settled and I have all the others out of storage, because at some point, I really MUST do things like updating wills and all that icky life stuff, so the books are a little bit important, given the nature of the collection...

K

Peter S. said...

Hello, Overthinker Palaboy. Diba? Sana ganito lahat ng problema.

Hi, Kaz! Oh right! I've seen a part of your treasures! I am green with envy!

caite said...

hey, you were in my house!
oh...you too...

Peter S. said...

LOL!