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The book hoarder.

I was a book hoarder. I had books everywhere , stuffed under the bed , shoved in the wardrobe , in the car , anywhere I had space basically . Everytime I passed a bookshop the chances are I'd buy a book.

I would be offended when people advised me to get a kindle, unable to understand why anyone would not prefer the physical version. I was a book snob . I judged people by their bookshelves and assessed their personality by the book they were reading on the train or the beach .

Then along came the kids and my days of curling up for hours with a book came to an abrupt end . I'd just about manage two pages before waking up two hours later to crawl into bed. Unfortunately my book addiction didn't stop with my reading and my collection of unread books continued to grow at an alarming rate.

So unread books were the first to go , I decided that unless I had rushed home and read a book straight away it's unlikely I'm going to read it at all unless it's a reference book .

Cookbooks were next, they all were donated ... Everything is available on the internet so that was an easy decision for me .

Next was the books I'd read , this was not so easy , out of the hundreds of books I had , I'd only re -read a handful of them , those were the only ones I kept , the remainder I donated .

Reference books .. I kept the ones we used ,nothing else , this too was relatively easy.

Now I have a collection of Dickens hardbacks, a handful of reference books , the few books I've re-read

And a couple of childhood books . However my hoarding days are not over , I now have hundreds unread books on my kindle (which I eventually decided to try .) I do prefer a physical book after a visit to the bookshop but do like being able to read in the dark, and of course to have an invisible library stuffed to the rafters .

03/08/2016

The book hoarder.

So unread books were the first to go , I decided that unless I had rushed home and read a book straight away it's unlikely I'm going to read it at all unless it's a reference book .

Cookbooks were next, they all were donated ... Everything is available on the internet so that was an easy decision for me .

Next was the books I'd read , this was not so easy , out of the hundreds of books I had , I'd only re -read a handful of them , those were the only ones I kept , the remainder I donated .

Reference books .. I kept the ones we used ,nothing else , this too was relatively easy.

Now I have a collection of Dickens hardbacks, a handful of reference books , the few books I've re-read

Labels: book, collection, decluttering, kindle, living with less, marie kondo, minimalism, reading, reference books, unread books

The book hoarder.

The Organiser UK www.theorganizeruk.com

03/08/2016

The book hoarder.

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