the home becomes more of a home

[merle_]

I have yet to post much about my new digs, like how I discovered it, how it is off the beaten path but right next to everything, how much work it entails, how much it will be worth it.. but today is a happy day.
Last night I retrieved many of my loose books. Some are full sets, like Erikson (only eight of the Malazan books fit in a grocery bag!),

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[siderea]

W00T! Congrats on getting the place. Sounds like some good omens.

[merle_]

It was, thanks! More money than I expected but.. well, more in next post, and eventually pix.

I seem to have been themed as a Hello Kitty sort of guy. So need some dark evil artwork to counteract it. Oh, wait, that's what my computer is for. *grins* My next step for old laptop is to upgrade Ubuntu; v8 refuses to even become 9 much less anything from this decade. Sigh. But it's dual boot with XP Pro and I want that aspect around.

[merle_]

*squee* for the art! I'll definitely send you a picture. They'll be wonderful in the transition area from beige to what will be the blue/green room...

[cellio]

Congrats on the new place!

Renting...a library. Why didn't I think of that? It would have made the house search so much easier, especially with Mr. "All my voluminous collection of SF must be in one room -- two adjacent ones won't do -- and I'm morally opposed to building stacks". Sheesh.

[merle_]

All my siblings have huge collections (somewhat decreased from moves, but my sister's boxes provided for a nice summer of reading every one of those Marion Zimmer Bradley books) and we all lusted after dad's collection which includes hardcover first edition (second printing) of the second Foundation book.

Stacks? How does one not deal with stacks? For hardcovers, sure, they get their own shelf. Paperbacks with a nice 4" box under them means twice the books, all visible and accessible.

I'll send you a pic once things are in place. It's really not bad looking at all.

[cellio]

No no, we already do that (though we use blocks of open-cell foam, 4x4x4"), so we get two rows per shelf for paperbacks. By "stacks" I meant library-style, shelves perpendicular to the walls of the room with just enough space to walk through. That's what my husband objects to. So we had to find a house with a room large enough to hold the SF along the walls, no small task. (We're using an attic room for this. The paperbacks are double-stacked on about 15 5.5' bookcases (shorter attic walls); there are also tall bookcases with hardbacks on the taller inside walls.)

Ooh, first-edition Foundation...

[merle_]

Ah, thar kind of stacks. I would object to that too. Then again, I've been known to *gasp* give away books that I have no abiding wish to reread or save for sentimental value. Blasphemy, I'm sure...