Fiction

huge amounts of books to someone planning to open a used bookstore. The first got 31 boxes of books, the second only about 16. I've given up trying to sell them at Half Price Books because I get so little for them. My solution to the overwhelming number of books is to stop buying, unless I think it's a book I cannot get from the library or I will actually want to reread.

Even with that, I've twice done a serious cull in my current place, which I've been in almost ten years. The fact that it's small, about 900 square feet, keeps me almost under control. But now I've got a lot of signed books that I want to hang on to, and I'm going to need to box them up and store them in the garage.

I almost never buy duplicates. Of course, the fact that I'm not buying very many these days helps solve that problem.