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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
Wait until you move a few times. Those physical books lose a lot of their appeal when you're shlepping boxes of them up three flights of stairs.
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Yes!
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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Oh, my achin' back!
I'm going through that drill right now and wondering how I ended up with 60 cu ft worth of dead tree pulp. (New place will have a library and I hope it'll look cool but for now...)
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I sympathise. I've just moved, I had abt. 1.2 cubic meter (40 cu ft). Over the last months before moving I culled a few shelves worth of books. And after I moved I ended up giving away at least as many books again. I was really shocked that is was so much.
That said, even if I prefer reading e-books (at least fiction), I still like to own some of them in paper version, too, and I don't think a living room is a real living room without books. One's choice of books are after all an expression of who one are, and apparently I feel a need to have that on display at some level. And books are also a good conversation starter for guests.