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RE: Adventures in Minimalism - Letting Go Of Books
And yes the idea of minimalism appeals to me greatly after just having let go of most everything to move to Puerto Rico. We are being very selective about what we choose to reaquire.
I love books, but generally now prefer electronic so they take up no space and I can access any of my books from where ever I am.
Oh that's right, you guys had a MAJOR move, didn't you. No driving a U-Haul to Puerto Rico.
I hope you're settling in comfortably - enjoy the empty spaces while they last!
Right. It’s expensive to ship things to Puerto Rico so the move supported the letting go. Plus my 2017 intention, without knowing we were going to move when I set it, was to make space for what’s important in my life. Boy did I ever...
Have you read Marie Kondo’s book? It’s fab and I have read my digital version twice. Make you WANT to clean house.
One big advantage of paper books is that you can pass them along. We gave hundreds to our yoga center and started a free library there. Sadly I can’t (or don’t know how) to do that with my digital library.
I've flipped through a bit of Kondo's book when I was working at (of all places!) a bookstore. And the book All That Remains by "The Minimalists" actually came at a great time for me as well. I knew someone who was working for them who gave me a copy by chance.
Giving away books is something the digital copy can't match. But again, for the amount of times it happens that I know someone who'd actually read a book I had - I'll just pay to buy them a copy as a gift!