On books and more

I have been reading more again - with the weekly commute to London and back, and being stuck in hotel rooms.

As a result I have been catching up on reading or re-reading my books.

I finished indexing my books at librarything, apart from some coffee table books and cookbooks. See here for the damage: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/iphigenie. The last count is 1224, although about 20 of those have since been given away.

In the process I have started to select books I won’t reread or lend out to people, and try to sell them on Amazon or get them “mooched”. I think I sold about 5 on Amazon, as for most books you just cannot sell them at prices to cover even the shipping! So I have started using book swapping site bookmooch.com. As of today I have given 11 books, received 7, have 2 on their way to me and 3 about to ship out. I like sending the books to someone who actually wants to get it, it feels better than giving a box to charity (as you dont know whether they will just gather dust for years). Check my list and get those books off my hands: