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Getting rid of unwanted books
Interesting NYT piece on different ways to clear out unwanted books. From New Ways to Do It Make Giving Away Books a Bit Less Painful:
Was I really ever going to read "Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory"? How about "Hegel, Kierkegaard, Marx: Three Great Philosophers Whose Ideas Changed the Course of Civilization"? Not unless I was under house arrest.
We gave away hundreds more without ever missing them.
But getting rid of books creates tension for many, although it is often one of the first things people have to do when downsizing or simply trying to organize their lives.
Similarly, the first step towards bit literacy is to clear out the e-mail inbox. Some people want to keep all their e-mails forever - "what if I need it later?" - but like the reader above, they'd find that purging some of the old text might release some tension.
(See more in Chapter 4 of Bit Literacy.)
