30-day Challenge! - Day 29: Do you do the Shelf Shuffle?

[Wreade1872]

There doesn't seem to be a 29/30 in this challenge so i'm adding my own, i hope nobody minds.

So all my good shelves are full, so everytime i get new books i have to go through the Shelf Shuffle dance :P .
I moved things from 4 different shelves with my latest purchases and threw 3 books from the family shelf into the recycle bin, to make room to move some of my unwanted personal books there. Trust me giving them away wouldn't have done the world any favours*.

So the question is, where do you put a new load of books when you get them?

* the books i tossed were Practical Intuition, Modern Writing Practise (from the 1960s) and the Horseriders Encyclopedia, brought to you from the same author as How to Ride a Horse. I regret nothing.

[Luke]

I stack them on my reading stand until I can slot them in somewhere. As 99.99% of what's on my shelves gets sold or donated once I've read it, there's a guarantee of sufficient space opening up sooner or later. Just depends on whether I'm in the mood to do the under the bed tango once my far more accessible vertical shelving space is filled up.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Wreade1872 wrote: "There doesn't seem to be a 29/30 in this challenge so i'm adding my own, i hope nobody minds.

So all my good shelves are full, so everytime i get new books i have to go through the Shelf Shuffle d..."

I had thought about adding one or two, but in the end didn't. I think it is fine you added one in.

[Lynn, New School Classics]

I cleared out duplicates of sheet music .... I keep the copies of old songs we have done in my church choir. I was able to open up two more shelves for books!! Not sure where I will find the room next.

[LiLi]

@Lynn, oh my! I have a lot of choir sheet music, too. It takes up a lot of space.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I have the unread books stacked all around the house. I donate most of them when they are read, but if I get one that I really must keep, I find a spot to squeeze it in on the bookshelves. When we moved I went from ten bookshelves to two, so I have a constant challenge not to allow them to overflow. I gave up a lot of my hard copies and bought downloads. That made me sad, but in a way, I still own the books.