I had to do it, eventually.
I am just getting started. The books in the middle box look like they have hatched an escape plan.
I hate packing my books. Even though I am just getting started, my studio already seems bereft of a certain energy.
“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.”-Charles Lamb, Last Essays of Elia, 1833.
Marilyn, waiting her turn.
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 
Maedez, I am reading an old copy of Truman Capote’s “Music for Chameleons” and it has some food type blotches in it like someone was eating Cheetos (if they had them then). It also has an impressed seal of the original owner. Those boxes look pretty full – I found that those cardboard file boxes sold in office supply stores are great for books – they don’t break and the movers don’t mind.
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I love old copies of old books. They are, in my opinion, the best.
They are full, but not too full. Still easy to pick up. I have moved them so many times I have it down to a science by this point. Since L works in restaurants we always have access to free boxes, but I agree that file boxes are great.
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Even worse than packing them is carrying them upstairs! They are super HEAVY!
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Oh, yes. Been. there. done. that. Too many times at this point!
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I was sore for a week after we moved.
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Not being surrounded with one’s books is like being in a room without oxygen!
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Beautifully stated, and so true.
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Many of my books have circumnavigated the globe. Twice. It doesn’t make sense, but I think you might understand Mae 🙂 A chance to reacquaint with all your favourite volumes twice, packing and unpacking!
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No matter where in the world I move, my books will follow me. I would sell all of my clothes and other belongings, but not my books. I totally understand, by the way. My books are still in my studio, at least, just packed away…I think I am going to run out of boxes, though…
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Ah, I feel a bit sad at the sight of this. Who wants to be without these friends, even for a short period of time?
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Thank you for sharing my sadness. It is only extremely temporary, but it is hard to have them in sight but packed away.
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Almost all of my books have been a storage unit since last year. Ay! It’s a terrible necessity right now…
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Yikes! That is…horrible. I cannot even imagine. I hope that one day soon you will be surrounded by the books you love!
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