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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
Do I need to truck some of those books here just to make this look like a home?
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No, I don't.
The less physical stuff I can own, the better. In the past, I loved having a collection of paper books, DVD's, and CD's. I actually had multiple Billy cases, full to the brim.
Until I had to move.
I did it once, and then on my second move, I thought: lol, nope.
I started to rip all of my CD's to FLAC, and short of a few boxes of classical music that aren't done yet, they've all been given away or sold. I also sold or gave away all of my DVD's, rebuying only the absolute favorites as Blu-Ray (and keeping the DVD's that are not rereleased in Blu-Ray). All of them fit in a shoe-box (excluding my LotR and Hobbit boxes). With regard to books, I've sold and given away everything, and switched completely to public domain and un-DRM-ed ebooks. The exception are these:
- I like to have reference and study books on paper because flipping is easier and it's easier/cheaper to use more than one book at once.
- I love illustrated books such as the Alan Lee version of LotR, and highly illustrated books about subjects that interest me (but those could be put under reference/study if you want.)
In short, the only paper books I have are the ones with a lot of big illustrations in them. I don't feel the need to have an "only-text"-book in paper anymore.
edit: oh, and my entire Middle-Earth collection is on paper, because most of the History isn't even available as ebooks. And they contain maps and pictures, and so forth. Thinking about it, my M-E collection is about half of the books I still own
