05-22-2010, 03:20 PM | #1 |
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Did you know that non-fiction is denser than fiction?
I am moving next weekend, but since I'll be busy next week, I already started packing. I've packed up most of my books today. I found out that small size moving boxes was the answer - usually I've just spread a thin layer of books in all my moving boxes, but this time I got the feeling there'd be too few boxes all in all if I did that. I've been going through my things and it's been a pleasant surprise to discover that I don't own as much "stuff" as I feared. Only books....
Anyway, I can fill a box with fiction books, and it'll be heavy, but not unmanageably heavy. With non-fiction, I've had to stop when it's filled about 2/3-3/4. And it's not that my fiction books are all small, light-weight, mass-market paperbacks - most of them are not - but non-fiction books are apparently overall denser and thus heavier. And I've got perhaps 2/3 non-fiction to 1/3 part fiction books. I can't wait till this is over. |
05-22-2010, 03:29 PM | #2 |
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It sounds like your non-fiction books have better paper.
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05-22-2010, 03:48 PM | #3 |
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Very probably Though one can imagine that it's all the intellect behind the words on the paper that is weighing down the books Apparently story-telling is more light-weight.
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05-22-2010, 05:04 PM | #4 |
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My family calls fiction, "fluff". Now, I know why.
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05-22-2010, 05:08 PM | #5 |
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Well, at the moment I sincerely wish the fluff-to-seriousdenseness relationship were a bit... different in my home than it is.
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05-22-2010, 05:48 PM | #6 |
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I hope the move is a good thing and you don't have too much disruption. I paid the movers to transport all my books when my son and I moved. Of course, when I saw what the estimate was for the books, we sold quite a few of them.
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05-23-2010, 04:32 AM | #7 |
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Thank ye gods for ebooks. Neil
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05-23-2010, 04:37 AM | #8 |
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experience, knowledge and ideas are heavy
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05-23-2010, 06:08 AM | #9 |
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and at the same time they elevate the spirit ...
This brings us right in the middle of Pataphysics. A link? why not. No better a list of the giants on whose shoulders we stand: Hippocrates of Chios Sophrotatos the Armenian Alfred Jarry Raymond Queneau Eugene Ionesco Boris Vian (Considering Boris Vian a giant is a true pataphysical assertion) just to name a few |
05-23-2010, 07:55 AM | #10 |
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One reason I hate moving is my "library." Yes the small boxes are best for books otherwise they become heavy and unwieldy.
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05-23-2010, 10:02 AM | #11 |
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It's fine, I'm looking forward to it. It's just that it's nine years since I moved last time and I'm completely out of practice. Plus I've acquired a number of things since then. Apparently especially books *sigh*
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05-23-2010, 10:42 AM | #12 |
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Just weighed a particularly heavy one; The Art of East Asia. 6 kg!
But I think my IKEA catalogue collection is close on its heels, weight-wise. |
05-30-2010, 05:47 PM | #13 |
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Everything's in now, my family has left, and I'm going to bed (it's a quarter to twelve). It's SO quiet here (wonderful!) Wish I didn't have school tomorrow But I can sleep in Tuesday. And sort stuff out. I finally found my shoes, but my make-up is still missing. Now I just need to figure out what bus to take tomorrow.
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05-31-2010, 05:42 PM | #15 |
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Everything's packed, moved, and inside my new apartment
(sorry if it wasn't clear) Well... Define painful It takes time to pack because there's all the clutter to clear up at the end, but then it also takes a lot of time to put things away finally - and put up things like shelves, lamps, curtain rods, towel holders, etc. That's a great time to have a man in one's life Unfortunately both my brother and my father are aware I am fully capable of doing such things on my own and will tell me so* - but I don't like doing it. I just put up a light-blocking blind in my bedroom - almost took an hour - once was enough. Though break of dawn at 4.00-3.30 AM is enough as well... I hate waking early in the summer - you'd know, I think. *they'll help if I look helpless enough *lol* Last edited by Ea; 05-31-2010 at 05:45 PM. |
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