On Monday Jeri Dansky's Organizing and Decluttering News offered seven takes on how to tackle the oft-postponed but never really abandoned task of eliminating from your life books you no longer have any use for.
Bullet points:
• It's not easy — but it is necessary
• Take it in small bites
• You can almost always find a discarded book if the need arises in the future
There's also a brief consideration of the guilt involved in not finishing a book in which Ms. Dansky quotes Sara Nelson, author of "So Many Books, So Little Time," who wrote that allowing yourself to stop reading marks "a rite of passage in a reader's life." It is, says Ms. Nelson, "the moment at which you can look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult, I can make my own decisions."
[via Cynthia Crossen (writing in the Wall Street Journal) and NombeB]
(Via bookofjoe.)