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Aug. 19th, 2017 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethToday I decided to keep almost all the remaining unsorted books, so now they're cleanish and back on a shelf.
It makes it look like I only have half a shelf of free space, but it's actually a whole shelf, I just learned from previous mistakes and decided to only put small light books on the very top shelf because it is far above my head. I can reach to put things on but it gets dodgy getting them down again. So, small paperbacks only.
That distributes things oddly, but there's still a large empty space, waiting for me to think of a topic for it.
I'm not convinced I definitely want all the books I kept, but they'd all require a thorough reading to be sure, and I can't keep them on the table long enough to read three feet of books.
The last little heap of books are poetry and belong with the rest of the lit, if I want to keep them. I think I don't need all of them but again you can't just read poetry books like gulping, they take a while. So I shall shelve them for now, I think, but to do so I've got to move a bunch of other things I probably don't need at all, and also I'll have to reach a top shelf, above a bunch of old electricals. Not simples. Shall take it in stages later.
I only weeded one book today. It's a book from 1958 making jokes about skool. It's vaguely funny but I don't think I've looked at it in twenty years and I won't miss it.
So many books.
Pretty cool, having so many books.
But they also remind me of all the things I haven't done or learned yet. Which is vaguely intimidating. :-/
I'm not going to be starting school in September but I reckon I could start studying things. All I'd need to do is pick up some books. Even books I already have.
I'd like to get some new and up to date books, because even if it's about history, books tend to accidentally tell a lot about the time they're written, and I want some with as broad a perspective as we've yet figured. History with the women actually in it, for instance. History that knows Britain wasn't white, and quite a lot of interesting things happened that weren't in Britain.
I can start with the library, or the university library even, though they'll get busy. I can look in their catalogues. And I can go buy nice thick history books with interesting angles, like things about trade routes, or the importance of cloth.
Many possibilities.
It makes it look like I only have half a shelf of free space, but it's actually a whole shelf, I just learned from previous mistakes and decided to only put small light books on the very top shelf because it is far above my head. I can reach to put things on but it gets dodgy getting them down again. So, small paperbacks only.
That distributes things oddly, but there's still a large empty space, waiting for me to think of a topic for it.
I'm not convinced I definitely want all the books I kept, but they'd all require a thorough reading to be sure, and I can't keep them on the table long enough to read three feet of books.
The last little heap of books are poetry and belong with the rest of the lit, if I want to keep them. I think I don't need all of them but again you can't just read poetry books like gulping, they take a while. So I shall shelve them for now, I think, but to do so I've got to move a bunch of other things I probably don't need at all, and also I'll have to reach a top shelf, above a bunch of old electricals. Not simples. Shall take it in stages later.
I only weeded one book today. It's a book from 1958 making jokes about skool. It's vaguely funny but I don't think I've looked at it in twenty years and I won't miss it.
So many books.
Pretty cool, having so many books.
But they also remind me of all the things I haven't done or learned yet. Which is vaguely intimidating. :-/
I'm not going to be starting school in September but I reckon I could start studying things. All I'd need to do is pick up some books. Even books I already have.
I'd like to get some new and up to date books, because even if it's about history, books tend to accidentally tell a lot about the time they're written, and I want some with as broad a perspective as we've yet figured. History with the women actually in it, for instance. History that knows Britain wasn't white, and quite a lot of interesting things happened that weren't in Britain.
I can start with the library, or the university library even, though they'll get busy. I can look in their catalogues. And I can go buy nice thick history books with interesting angles, like things about trade routes, or the importance of cloth.
Many possibilities.