Still Unpacking Books

[quasigeostrophy]

When my in-laws were doing most of the packing of the 200+ boxes of books before we moved, they made a few comments (somewhat) in jest that we have too many books.

I shrugged them off.

Of course, now that we've been here over 6 months and I'm still unpacking them, I'm starting to see their point. ;-) I emptied another 25 boxes in the last hour and a half or so, and the great pile of boxes is finally down to where I can get a rough estimate of how many remain. There are still around 90 boxes left to unpack!

I've been pulling out a title here or there as I unpack, putting it in the stack destined for Half Price Books, but I also know there are a lot more I want to take a harder look at to send there (mostly travel books, some baseball almanacs and other sport stuff I'm either no longer interested in or have time for).

I did finally come across most of our sci fi and fantasy, including a lot of our Gaiman, and our Absolute Sandman volumes I - III (we still need to get vol. IV, it came out after we moved and were still more strapped financially) survived the move with only a minor dent along the short top edge of the back of vol. I's slipcase (the book itself is undamaged). Our Hill House Author's Preferred Edition of American Gods and the accompanying reader's copy seem to have survived in excellent shape.

What I still haven't unpacked are my paperback Piled Higher and Deeper comic collections. Jorge Cham, the creator, is going to be speaking at Purdue Friday evening, and I wanted to get one of them signed.

Comments

[gremlin44.livejournal.com]

Tired and misread the title as "Still unpacking boobs."

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

ROTFL! I don't know if that would have taken me over 6 months! ;-)

[elmegil.livejournal.com]

Cataloging at Library Thing as you go? ;-D

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Haha. No. Readerware would be a higher priority, anyway, and before we moved we hadn't gotten to cataloging the room that was the library there. My main goal right now is to get the boxes out of the middle of the floor, and using the physical exertion of unpacking as a stress release when needed. Then (probably not at least until the spring semester is over) I'll make the major culls I've talked about above, and then worry about cataloging. :-)

[floating09.livejournal.com]

*puppy eyes* I want something signed by Jorge Cham T-T but the odds of him comming to UND is slim to nil. I got him to sign the 3rd book by preordering it but that is it. You are lucky.