{"id":330,"date":"2004-05-10T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=330"},"modified":"2005-09-27T23:08:45","modified_gmt":"2005-09-28T07:08:45","slug":"time-to-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Time To Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

I started packing my books this weekend. I love having them, but they’re a pain in the butt to move. You never know how many you have until you put them in boxes and haul them out.<\/p>\n

And, wow. Do I have a lot.<\/p>\n

I have books I haven’t even gotten around to reading yet, books of all genres—history, classic literature, math, language theory, how-to—books I bought with every intention of reading. Vonnegut. Faulkner. Djuna Barnes? I even have Le Petit Prince<\/i> and Les Liaisons Dangereux<\/i> in the original French. I’ll get around to them one day!<\/p>\n

Great tip for packing books: use boxes 12″ on all sides, have many of those boxes handy, and haul three or four of them at a time with a dolly. Bigger boxes are harder to lift and move, and when you have bookshelves and beds to worry about, you’ll wish all the book boxes were lighter.<\/p>\n

I have 20 or so 12″ boxes, and I can only hope I have enough. Even though I’ve kept my book-buying to an absolute minimum since my last move, I somehow managed to acquire a few more books.<\/p>\n

Minnie<\/a> and Mark<\/a> (you guys so rock) have gotten me a few. Cousin Zee got me an Amazon gift certificate, which is definitely going towards a few books I want. Author Carole Bellacera<\/a>, for whom I did an e-book cover, sent me an autographed copy of one of her books<\/a>, which was kind of neat. Dee S. Knight<\/a> sent me an autographed print copy of Resolutions<\/a>, which was even neater because I did the cover. And Monette Michaels<\/a> sent me two<\/i> autographed books—two!—which thrilled me to no end.<\/p>\n

Having those last four, along with my signed Terry Brooks<\/a>, Harry Turtledove<\/a>, and Raymond E. Feist<\/a> books, I’m convinced now that I should start collecting autographed books in earnest. Then at least my books might be worth something to the outside world, and I wouldn’t have such throw-the-book-out-cidal tendencies during a move.<\/p>\n

Not a bad idea, really.<\/p>\n

One of H.E.’s friends collects first editions, many of them signed—by Hemingway, Fitzgerald … you know, obscure names like that. Each book is probably worth about 20 grand.<\/p>\n

Who knows? Maybe my signed paperback copy of The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump<\/i> will be worth as much. Or half as much. Or, I don’t know. $200?<\/p>\n

Heck, I could buy a ton of books with that kind of money.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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I started packing my books this weekend. I love having them, but they’re a pain in the butt to move. You never know how many you have until you put them in boxes and haul them out. And, wow. Do I have a lot. I have books I haven’t even gotten around to reading yet, books of all genres—history, classic literature, math, language theory, how-to—books I bought with every intention of reading. Vonnegut. Faulkner. Djuna Barnes? I even have Le…<\/p>\n

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