Resolution review

[tigerfort]

Having made it a couple of months into the year, I thought I should have a look at how I was doing with maintaining my fairly trivial resolutions.

1) Post (at least) once per week: mostly successful. I have missed one week, but so far only the one.

2) Total fail, so far. I've still not posted the lists of books I read in 2011 or 2012.

3) Cut down on S/H book purchases. I think I've bought a total of four books in charity shops this year, two of them written by millionaires and one of the others several decades out of print. I have also acquired two books (both OOP and written by dead people) from the Seacourt booksforfree and three from ewx, but that's still only one per week on average.

3a) I've also been organised enough to dispose of over a hundred books I'm not going to read again (well, and a few duplicates I don't need), helping somewhat on the "piles of books everywhere" front. There should be another batch getting listed soon.

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

(3a) sounds very impressive. Although I'm not sure if it's testament to your amazing powers of organisation, or just to the sheer massiveness of the "piles of books everywhere" :)

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

It was mostly made (relatively) easy by the fact that I was moving lots of books anyway, and it therefore didn't add much time or effort to periodically say "I'll never want that again" and put it in a different pile. As for massiveness of the piles... well, I reckon that the ~130 books in that list constitute more than 5%, but less than 10% of the number in this room. And this room probably contains at least 2/3 (probably over 3/4) of the books in the house (by number; not necessarily by mass, since the cooking, gardening, etc, books that are stored elsewhere tend to be both considerably bigger than even a large-format paperback and somewhat denser because they're printed on better paper).

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

My own resolution review: probably about 22 line pairs per millimetre.

;-)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Very impressed by your book disposalling :-) Our books badly need going through, reorganising, and culling - but then that is true for many of the other categories of stuff in the house, and there are only so many hours, and spoons, in a day (as I know you are very well aware.) Wishing you good luck with all your resolutions!