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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I encountered this a few years ago. I had just finished reading Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Manga of Tidying Up, and my wife and I agreed that we needed to downsize some. Mind you, I am not a Kondo disciple, as there are a lot of issues of privilege tied up in the notion of being able to throw out/donate bags of stuff, but I appreciate the notion.
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My reaction to Kondo is that while I appreciate her basic insight about only keeping things that spark joy, I think that fleshing it out into a book did lead to troubling concepts, as with this. My own reaction to donating is that if something isn't really serving a purpose for me, I'd rather get it out there where it might do some good, but a fair amount of stuff doesn't spark joy but I need it anyway.
I think the tipping point for me with Kondo was when she described how she empties out her purse every single night, to repack it the next day. Someone's got way too much time on her hands! And I do clear out the receipts on a daily basis.
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So, we went through every book on every one of our eight 6-foot shelves and decided what to keep. Easy enough. But I am the only one with an ebook library. So I put Calibre into cover view and tried to do the same. I build a TBR every January, and if I couldn't see that book hitting that list anytime soon, it was time for it to go.
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I'm just about there, but not quite. It's been easier for me to take the occasional pass than once and done. I appreciate this comment as bolstering my resolve to go for deeper cuts.
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As an alternative, you can create a folder of those books elsewhere on your PC and just remove them from Calibre. If, in 6-12 months, you have had no need to go looking for something to read out of that folder, delete it and be done.
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What I did a while back is to rank my books in terms of appeal; I have five classifications and my default Calibre list orders them according to them. What I like about this is that it's out of sight, out of mind. Once I haven't looked at the titles in a while it would be easier to do a blanket deletion. Realistically, I don't need or want to have to consider those in the bottom two categories again.
