To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness.

Pippilongstocking

I think you need to get OH to join CAMRA

Have a great weekend sweetie Yay to car insurance saving and culling books whilst sounds acceptable and logical is actually barely a legal sport. Be safe, don't get prosecuted, just don't cull. Who knows who might be watching.

You've said it yourself, you live in a rural area, you can hardly spend money on anything, I don't as yet hear reading is a crime, we're encouraged as children remember.......................................


This is how I justify my own book sanctuary to myself.

Cheery_Daff

quite right Pippi! :T

Karmacat

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

I think you need to get OH to join CAMRA

Have a great weekend sweetie Yay to car insurance saving and culling books whilst sounds acceptable and logical is actually barely a legal sport. Be safe, don't get prosecuted, just don't cull. Who knows who might be watching.

You've said it yourself, you live in a rural area, you can hardly spend money on anything, I don't as yet hear reading is a crime, we're encouraged as children remember.......................................


This is how I justify my own book sanctuary to myself.

CAMRA!!! Happy days :):) Butti, have a brilliant time :j

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: at book culling barely being a legal sport Over the last ten years I've gone from 8 bookcases 6' high by 3' wide, to 4 of the same, and I'm *trying* to cut that down a bit too, tho its much, much more difficult now. The easiest was the work magazines that were 15 years old :eek:

MrsMoo2U

Great one Pippi. What a great idea about joining CAMRA might get onto that. He has designs on the Munich Beer Festival but he is happy to wait until we live 2 hours away from there and hopefully we have lots of visitors.

So right about the books but my theory is there are only so many books that I can re read. I save the ones that mean something to me but I try to pass on or swap ones that I know I won't really make use of.

Karmacat

There's quite a lot more I can get rid of under that scenario. Have you ever read TH White, The Once And Future King? Sigh .... I read it in my 20s, loved it but gave it away, found a 2nd hand copy about ten years ago. I haven't re-read it in all those ten years ..... it says something, doesn't it! There's plenty of shelving I *don't* need (I keep telling myself).

Cheery_Daff

I've got my bookshelves down to quite a few that I read over and over and over - you know, I actually don't have a thing about acquiring books, much as I love them. Always happier with the library Mr Daffs has LOADS though, and last year sorted out some to go on Amazon - I said I'd do it and they're still sat there in a pile cos I just couldn't face it Will add it to the list and get on with the weighing! Should be able to weigh them all in an hour, and get them all on there in another hour - no excuses really! Thanks for the (unwitting) boot up the backside! :T

MrsMoo2U

I love books but dont have as many as I used to have. I have no clue how amazon works. I do have a few coffee table books that I really love to look at. One being about living in Mexico. Where I nearly ended up living just before I met up with Mr C again. Bit of a change from Austria! My mexican friend has said that he will eventually visit me but is more inclined to visit Austria as his ambition is to "snow ski"

MatyMoo

Cheery, I thought you just typed in the ISBN No to Amazon and then they added in the title and details and decided what you could charge for P&P?

*wanders off mumbling, that's how the girl at work told me it worked*

Pippilongstocking

MatyMoo wrote: »

Cheery, I thought you just typed in the ISBN No to Amazon and then they added in the title and details and decided what you could charge for P&P?

*wanders off mumbling, that's how the girl at work told me it worked*

Thats how it works pop in the isbn - tell them the condition of it and where you're happy to post too and then they set the postage and you hit 'list'

Easy peasy worth doing as things stay listed for 90 days (I think)

goodluck

MrsMoo2U

what the heck is the isbn and what is the protocol for posting with them. I have always had things in a lovely box do Amazon supply them?