Do you have book storage problems? How do you decide which books stay and which go?
Do I have book storage problems?
No and yes.
I spent a day over the Christmas break rearranging my main bookshelf (the one with all my Christian fiction), and bagging up books to donate to my local church. The books I want to keep are now all on one shelf (yay!)
Unfortunately, there are also two piles of unread books that I may or may not want to keep once I’ve read them.
(Big assumption: that I’ll actually read the paperbacks when I also have 100+ unread novels on my Kindle).
There is also five (yes, five) bags of books to donate.
The plan is to offer them to my church library first. However, the church library is currently in storage as the cafe and office space have recently been renovated. They have ordered more shelves, but global supply chain problems mean the shelves are apparently stuck on a ship somewhere. I don’t want to donate the books until the library is up and running again, so I can make sure I’m not offering books they already have. Here’s hoping the shelves arrive soon, because my second choice will be to donate them to the annual Rotary Club Easter Book sale.
The second part of the question is harder to answer: how do I decide which books stay and which books go?
I keep books I’ve worked on as an editor, or books where I’m mentioned in the acknowledgements. I donate books that I’ve since bought on Kindle. But that still leaves a lot of decisions. I ended up donating books I’ve enjoyed but know I won’t read again (and this is one reason for donating to the church library: they’re still handy if I want to re-read something).
