My parents are here and helping me clean… so I’ve got one set of bookshelves entirely clean
Just a few more thousand(s) of books to go
Got rid of a bunch of gardening, antiquing, and knitting books. The last group of books were mine, but I can’t knit anymore.
One of the books on the shelf has an interesting story:
Stanley Draper, evidently, was originally from North Carolina, but moved to OKC post-WWI.
Over the next 50 years, he was “Mr. Chamber of Commerce” for Oklahoma City, promoting the hell out of it, so I can believe he gave this book as a gift to the governor of North Carolina in 1963, when he was visiting Oklahoma for some reason.
We couldn’t find anyone willing to buy the 500 or so books of my parents, and I didn’t have the space nor any of my siblings. We told all relative to take what they wanted and we’re giving away the rest.
I have about four books from that collection.
we have to make the same decision about one of our parent’s collections too.
Those World Book encyclopedias are exactly the ones I was looking through a few weeks ago when clearing out my mom’s house. My sister and I read those cover-to-cover. So many interesting factoids. The info is a bit out-of-date though. I think ours were from 1970.
My dad was an avid reader but had only the smallest bookshelf. It had a 50s era book on airplane powerplants, a old history of United Airlines, a book about the Wobblies, a current copy of some sort of baseball almanac, and maybe a couple others. Everything else disappeared after reading, and I haven’t the foggiest idea what he did with them.
I still remember when my parents bought their hardback version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica back in the 80s.
They are very nostalgic about it and store it in the basement now of their retirement house.
Seems almost antiquated now with the availability of digital books, but I still like to read them from time to time when I visit.
I have three sets of encyclopedias, including the science encyclopedia set, from the year I was born… (my dad was a sucker for an encyclopedia salesman).
I like keeping the old encyclopedias, and gathering old reference books, because I like seeing what has changed and what hasn’t from “knowledge”.
Also, I like reading encyclopedias.
Ahem. Is the bookcase really.clean until youve front aligned the books?
I was bummed I don’t have room for them. Would have liked to have kept them. Definitely entertaining seeing what has changed over the years.
I’m not done with them yet… that was just one bookcase. Still have to do these:
(books in the dark… I can hear them breathe…)
and there are more…
my stepdad kept wanting me to arrange the books and I was like, look, can we focus on which books to get rid of first, and then I can organize the books by theme and weight, etc.
