I love proper books. As well as working my way through three books downloaded from the library on my iPad, I’m currently also reading a paperback copy of a Thursday Murder Club series. Sounds like you have been let out of hospital, @rowlandscastle444? Don’t overdo it!
I also love proper books. In addition to mine, my husband's and my children's (now being read by the grandchildren), we also have lots inherited from my dad. He haunted second hand bookshops for old and interesting items he could repair (he was an amateur bookbinder). And, @B3, I also love the smell of an old book...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
My oldest book is from the mid 1800s. Most of my prints and engravings are older than that. I love old books. Not the damp-smelling, wrinkled-covered paperbacks, but the antique hardbacks. I can peruse second hand bookshops for hours. When we went on holiday to Hay-on-Wye, one of our suitcases went there empty, but returned pretty full. Two weeks was not enough. And it has a castle! Very much my holiday destination. Not a place to consider decluttering.
I am supposed to be decluttering and have given a great many of my beloved books to charity shops. I hate giving up my books but the family do not want them and I am on limited life expectancy. I have loved books all of my life, I parted with around 200 when I moved here but soon replaced them from charity shops etc. As a child my only birthday request each year was a book.
It looks as though IM will be doing the ultimate decluttering! Getting rid of everything and everyone! Or is it a case of recluttering, if there is such a word, with a whole new bundle of stuff and people?
Well if they start a new forum or some other form of social media type thing, I will be staying well away. In fact I won't even be visiting their website.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Sounds like you have been let out of hospital, @rowlandscastle444? Don’t overdo it!
I love old books. Not the damp-smelling, wrinkled-covered paperbacks, but the antique hardbacks.
I can peruse second hand bookshops for hours. When we went on holiday to Hay-on-Wye, one of our suitcases went there empty, but returned pretty full. Two weeks was not enough. And it has a castle! Very much my holiday destination.
Not a place to consider decluttering.
Or is it a case of recluttering, if there is such a word, with a whole new bundle of stuff and people?