https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/03/03/how-to-organize-books/
"Here’s a riddle for you: When a book editor and political science professor
downsize from a six-bedroom house in the suburbs to a 900-square-foot Manhattan
apartment, how many books will they have to get rid of? For Matthew Budman (the
editor) and his wife, Cristina Beltrán (the professor), the answer was a
staggering 12,000.
“We had, you know, giant yard sales, and we had people carting off thousands of
books,” says Budman, author of “Book Collecting Now: The Value of Print in a
Digital Age.” The transition was tough, but he says it allowed him to recognize
that quantity isn’t everything. Now, he keeps roughly 3,000 titles at home
(plus thousands more in storage).
Living with books, in Budman’s case, has meant learning how to let them go. For
many book lovers, collecting is as much a practice of labor as it is love:
Gorgeous shelves have become a status symbol to flex on social media, but
managing all those volumes can be a much less glamorous endeavor. We asked
bibliophiles, with libraries ranging from 300 to 3,000, about their displaying
and organizing strategies."
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
