B is for Bookshelves

 

Second post in the blogging from A-Z challenge.

I don’t know how many books I own I reckon somewhere between 600 and 1,000. Storing them is problematic especially in the reduced pace available to us. So I use two old display cabinets, both of which have seen better days. The result, as you can see, is not ideal.

Worse still, both cabinets are now beginning to fall apart and I have some remedial work on my hands to stop them collapsing altogether.

I was discussing physical books with fellow authors from the Crooked Cat stable earlier today and the odd thing is that I would cheerfully get rid of most of the books on these shelves in exchange for e-copies.my wife and I travel abroad several times a year and the Kindle is just so much more convenient.

It’s abhorrent to some people who prefer the feel of a paperback. I can respect that. I wouldn’t have collected so many books if I didn’t love them. Everyone to his own and it would be a dull world if we were all the same, but for me, it’s the content that counts, not the format it’s delivered in.