{"id":3465,"date":"2010-02-11T22:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:38:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:38:18","slug":"paperback-alley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/paperback-alley\/","title":{"rendered":"Paperback Alley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned that I&#8217;ve started the process of unpacking my books in the new house. I began with the mass-market paperbacks, for a few reasons: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>they&#8217;re the smallest bit of the collection, so they present a relatively undaunting place to start<\/li>\n<li>The place where I wanted to put them was ready&#8211;unlike the room that will be the &#8220;main&#8221; library, which needs painting before I start putting stuff in there, or my office, which needs some reorganizing before I start to put shelves in it.<\/li>\n<li>I never unpacked the MMPBs that I moved to Halifax during the entire time we lived there, so starting with these was appealing since it would mean a chance to review some books I had that I hadn&#8217;t seen for nearly a decade. Also, in some cases where I had bought MMPBs during our time in Halifax that &#8220;go with&#8221; ones I previously had, I could have the OCD life satisfaction of finally putting them together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, as I mentioned previously, I&#8217;m using the unpacking, sorting, and shelving process as an opportunity to build an electronic catalogue of my holdings. The amount of geek pleasure I&#8217;m getting out of this fundamentally tedious process is nigh comedic.<\/p>\n<p>Having built a catalogue of the MMPBs as I put them on the shelves though, I can state with some exactitude that so far I have shelved 1297 books. This represents all the MMPBs that moved with us to Halifax, and the majority of the ones I bought while we were there<footnote>Some of the ones bought during our Halifax life got packed as &#8220;space-fillers&#8221; in the boxes with trade &#038; HC fiction, so it will be a while before I have <strong>all<\/strong> the MMPBs in place.<\/footnote>.<\/p>\n<p>They look like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/pb_alley1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Paperback Alley\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/_pb_alley1.jpg\" title=\"Paperback Alley\" alt=\"Paperback Alley\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/pb_alley2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Paperback Alley 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2010\/02\/_pb_alley2.jpg\" title=\"Paperback Alley 2\" alt=\"Paperback Alley 2\" width=\"330\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being OCD man, the books are shelved alphabetically by author, and chronologically within each author (except for cases where books are in a series&#8211;then each series is arranged together in chronological order). As you can see, I&#8217;ve left myself lots of spaces to fit more books in later without reshelving everything.<\/p>\n<p>I actually planned to put another wide bookcase here&#8211;you can see that there&#8217;s space for another wide on one the right-hand side&#8211;but apparently I overestimated the amount of space I would need immediately. This is a very good thing, since part of the goal of the setup in the new house is to have lots of room for future expansion. Having room to add another 8-shelf case, and the ability to add height extensions to four of the bookcases in this section (the ceiling is lower over the other ones), mean I should be good for quite a long time<footnote>My rate of acquisition of MMPBs is pretty low compared to trade &#038; HC fiction&#8211;I think I have around the same number now as I had when we left Halifax. I had 5 of the wide tightly packed cases full of MMPBs then, and now I have 5 wide and 1 narrow with lots of leftover room.<\/footnote>.<\/p>\n<p>Those 1297 books represent 16 boxes. I have literally hundreds of boxes to go. But at least I get to feel like I&#8217;m getting there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">I mentioned that I&#8217;ve started the process of unpacking my books in the new house. I began with the mass-market paperbacks, for a few reasons: they&#8217;re the smallest bit of the collection, so they present a relatively undaunting place to start The place where I wanted to put them was ready&#8211;unlike the room that will be the &#8220;main&#8221; library, which&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/11\/paperback-alley\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[458,407,435],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-storytime","tag-books","tag-moving","tag-ocd","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-TT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3475,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions\/3475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}