Link Du Jour: Do They Stay or Do They Go?
Let’s say you’re about to move. Clear across the country. Do you take your books? All your books? Even your copy of Trockle? Oh, that’s just me?
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Nick Bilton was faced with such a question as he packed up to move from New York to San Francisco. He wrote about it for the New York Times. Click the image below to find out what he did.
I try to keep my home library riffraff free (rate of success: poor), so if I move across the country, all my books are going with me.
What would you do?
(Top Image: ‘Books, anyone?‘ http://www.flickr.com/photos/14228046@N03/4444473213)
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About Travis Jonker
Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.
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Keep ’em. Although I’d probably do some culling, but I do that anyway every so often. But then, while I’m not yet an e-reader I have no doubt I will be once the right thing comes along. (So far not of the current readers call to me — I suppose if the Ipad were $100 it might, but not at $500:).
I did this for the move…I did some weeding, but still brought 17 boxes of books with me!
I just moved, and I brought 100 boxes of books! I inhabit my library with great joy, and so far I scoff at the thought of converting to an e-reader… But I did cull my collection, giving away probably another 30 boxes of books.
I just got rid of all of my books (seven or eight boxes). If I already had access to the books at the library why spend time and money moving them?
We moved from Sweden to Boston and almost all of our books came with us. About half of the number of boxes were books. The guys moving us into our house were not impressed.