I've been hitting the thrift stores and libraries for used books (mostly science fiction and fantasy), but I kinda overdid it. My shelf is overflowing and I ended up buying a lot of crap along with the good stuff (there wasn't time to look up individual books so I mostly just grabbed anything with a spaceship on the cover or similar).
Some of the books are obvious keepers (such as the Hugo-winning _Fountains of Paradise_ and _Ringworld_) and others are obvious goners (realistically, I am never gonna hunt down and read the first four _Dancing Gods_ books so that I can enjoy the fifth one, nor am I gonna look for the entire _Wheel of Time_ or _Sworth of Truth_ series), but beyond that I am lost. Any advice on what books to keep, what to chuck, and what is a good size for a science fiction collection?
(the + mark indicates a book that is in the public domain or in the free Baen CDs or by Cory Doctorow, so even if I get rid of the physical copy I can download a digital copy to my Kindle without any trouble)
Blake Sanders
get rid of all of it.
Lucas Jenkins
But... why?
Carson Clark
Here's what you do, pal. Right now, look at every book you own, one by one. take every one you don't want to continue to own and put it in a box. Or bag or whatever Once it's in the box, don't look at it again, if it goes in the box it's going, period. Fix up your shelves, put everything you're keeping on the shelf where it belongs Go through all those books again. one by one, put any book you don't want to keep in the box.
you're done
Eli Williams
At first I thought this was a shitpost til I read OP's list and, oh boy when the high water marks of the list are Tom Sawyer, 2001, and goddamn Slaughterhouse Five,
Jayden Nelson
You could get another shelf
Camden Lewis
Holy fuck this is ton of genre fiction and good chuck of it being the shitty kind. >Brian Herbert >Terry Goodkind
Aaron Perry
No love for Algernon?
Grayson Perry
>grab a book >flip a coin >heads keep it, tails throw it away >repeat for every book you own
Jonathan Smith
Literally all of it.
Jacob King
Literally?
Nicholas Foster
Veeky Forumserally
Owen Lee
how the fuck do you only have chalker book? you should be ashamed.
Dylan Allen
only have one*
Brody Brown
>that list
throw the lot mate
Levi Jones
>mostly science fiction and fantasy
Stopped reading there.
Christopher Ross
...
Mason Harris
Burn it all
Gabriel Ward
While some of the ideas in science fiction sound cool, they're not really very interesting To each his own though, not trying to shit on what you like
Leo Mitchell
...
Connor Rogers
The only book with reading in the sword of truth series is the first tbqh bin the rest
Justin Foster
>using a comic strip to belittle people who read graphic novels
biting satire
Lincoln Ramirez
Kek
Grayson Brown
I'll make this easy for you, and for anyone else with a similar issue, and tell you the only books you or anyone should have on a bookshelf:
Iliad Odyssey Shakespeare Complete Works Plato Complete Works Aristotle Complete Works Divine Comedy Don Quixote War and Peace The Brothers Karamazov A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Dubliners Ulysses Finnegans Wake Kafka Complete Stories Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Tao Te Ching Gravity's Rainbow Ficciones Infinite Jest
The rest just borrow from a library
Hunter Parker
Keep the Doctorow, I haven't read "Eastern Standard Time" specifically but I like him a lot.
Hearing good things about Octavia Butler, haven't read her though. Terry Prachett is a favourite of my autistic ex-roommate and my quirky 30-something Hegel prof, but again, never read him.
Check what editions of the Harry Potters you've got, especially if they're hardcover. Some are worth a lot of dosh.
I don't really know much about the rest of it, except for some of the bigger titles which I'm sure you know about.
Adam King
You should get the entire wheel of Time series There's a fuckton of them but it's one of the best series in fantasy
Dominic Hall
I love that you included tao te ching.
Ethan Wilson
LOL
Brody Morales
>The only books you should own are the ones you can download from Project Gutenberg Nigga you serious?
Wyatt Stewart
Do not burn or discard. Donate to a local shelter or three-quarter house.
Carter Cooper
thanks if you're mocking this list then you're a faggot you're a gigantic fucking faggot