I just had the "pleasure" of packing all my books, in preparation of my upcoming move. I brought three car loads (with the back seats removed) to my parents place (for temporary storage), and that was less than half of the books. Two bookcases floor to ceiling (one with shelves of 1.8 metres, the smaller with selves over 1 metre wide), and two 2 metre high, just less than one metre wide shelves bookcases were overflowing. The largest one had nothing but reference books (computer science, dictionaries, atlasses, history books), and the second largest was mostly reference as well.

And then there are the recently acquired 6 boxes of SF and mystery novels from the '50s, '60s and '70s. And the six shelf rack overflowing with (boxed) magazines and (computer science) articles. And there's this tower of university notes filling up the gap between the closet and the ceiling.

And only two more weeks left to pack.

But doing some of it away? Are you _mad_? I'd rather give up my computer than my books.

Abigail