Almost a year ago, I moved into the apartment I currently live in. When this event occurred, I only owned two decent-sized bookcases (one six foot, one three foot), plus a mini bookcase (for my writing things), and a tiny bookcase extension that attaches to the top of my dresser. When I moved, I moved figuring that I was going to buy another six foot bookcase eventually. This happened a few months after moving in, but mostly what went on there were the old, childhood books that I was determined to get out of their boxes.
The rest of my books, however, stayed where I'd put them the night I moved into my apartment.
For a while, this was fine, because it was manageable. And then many of the authors I love published new books...and books got sequels...and Half Price books had sales...and suddenly my original six foot bookcase got a little overflowing.
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| It's like a game of Tetris when I buy new books. |
Today was deemed the day in which bookcases were going to get reorganized. I've started reading so many books that are planned as trilogies or series, and I've gotten into reading so many different authors, that I know over the coming year, I'm sure I'll buy just as many books as I did the last twelve months. After a couple of hours, I had a much better book situation going in my room.
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Bookcase #1 (the one with the original mess)
The After Picture |
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Bookcase #2 (the one with all the childhood books and nothing else)
The After Picture |
But best of all, my wonderful dystopian shelf has plenty of room for all of my dystopian-novel-obsessing. It has the tallest shelf, so I can easily stack books on top of each other, plus it's not even full yet. This is a great improvement from what it looked like before.
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| Dystopian shelf -- Before |
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| New and Improved Dystopian shelf |
The big test is going to be when I try to locate one of my books. I'm going to guess that it's going to take me some time to get used to my new arrangement!
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