) overflowing with books I was never going to read again, and a lot of books I never had read and honestly never would. They were covering every available surface, forcing me to have towering bookshelves where I wanted to put other things

So much this.

Argh, someone is setting off fireworks in the street. Scared dog pees in the hallway. Thanks, neighbor, very festive.

It's too bad that you can't sell most books for anything near a price that makes it worthwhile. Used books just aren't money. Hell, if they were, I could pay off all my debts tomorrow. I took a few bags of books to a local bookstore for store credit before I discovered the SPCA, and now I have almost $200 store credit, but I really don't need the temptation to bring more books into the house! But it's good, I guess, I just have to focus on getting books I really want. Odd and unusual books are always welcome!

I guess I could take the better paperbacks to the used book store, but I don't need credit to bring in even more books.

The upside is you bring back many fewer books! I mean, upside if you're trying to shed stuff.

So I just saw Louis CK, in a surprise show at my local theater. (Surprise as of the other day, anyway.) That was fun! At one point, he was doing a bit that wasn't quite going anywhere, and he was like, "That's going to get better -- you paid thirty bucks!" Which was true.

I am so in the mood to get rid of stuff! I'm even culling books, which I never could bring myself to do before this summer.

I need to do this, too, although somehow I doubt I'll be as successful at getting rid of books as I have been with other stuff. At the very least, I can get rid of books where a) books that came into my possession that I didn't want, b) my feelings about the author have changed, and c) I can admit I'm never going to read it.

Edit: man, you guys posted a lot while I was thinking about this. I need to do what Zenkitty is doing with my library.

I've been thinking about weeding out my bookshelves for a month or so now. I should jump on the Buffista Book Divestiture Train.

I'm not gonna hop on that bandwagon just yet. Go y'all, though!

I've been thinking about weeding out my bookshelves for a month or so now. I should jump on the Buffista Book Divestiture Train.

I really, really need to do that.

I also need to stop buying random lots of vintage gothic occult romances. But they're such silly fun!

do this, too, although somehow I doubt I'll be as successful at getting rid of books as I have been with other stuff. At the very least, I can get rid of books where a) books that came into my possession that I didn't want, b) my feelings about the author have changed, and c) I can admit I'm never going to read it.

I got rid of anything I have electronically or that I had just bought because I needed something to read and not because I really liked it. That's six boxes of books.

I have so many books, and I don't know what to do with some of them. I have a bunch of classics and literary criticism from school. I don't want to dump books on the library or a thrift store that won't sell. Then I have books that are worth enough that I hate to just give them away. I haven't had much success in trading in books.

Sally Field is on PBS's Finding Your Roots. She's descended from William Bradford, and she had no idea who he was. Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?