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#50by50ish #46 – Purging some of my library

The PolyBlog
August 10 2019

My #50by50 years have come and gone, both the lead up and the bonus time when I was actually 50. I’m now 51, and there are a couple of items that I started during the period that I haven’t written up yet. One of those was a commitment to purging some books from my collection.

To be honest, I have no idea how many books I have in the basement. My educated guess is somewhere between 1500 and 2500. A huge range I know, and a large number of books. I’ve held on to them over the years, and they have followed me through multiple moves. For some of those homes, the books were basically just piled on a big book shelf four and five layers deep or left in boxes for a while. Most are mysteries, and while I occasionally go back and read some, part of the reason I have them still is that they are part of series. I am a “completist” in that sense…if I read an author, and like him or her, then I want to read EVERYTHING they’ve ever written. I read all the books by Sue Grafton, for example, including tracking down two early books by her through Interlibrary Loans. Even though the two books I had to scramble to find were not part of the series and had no relation to her mystery novels, I wanted to “complete” them. I started reading Edgar Award winners some time ago, and the first book was REALLY hard to find as it was out of print. Again, ILL found it so I could read it.

But if I’m brutally honest, the main reason I have them still is that I love books. At different points in my life, when times were tough, they were the only real friends I had. I could lose myself in them and block out the world. Mysteries will always be my favorite, and I’m sure it was no accident that my first “book crush” was the Three Investigators series, with a smarter than average lead detective, my age, and overweight. There were 42 books in the series and I still have every one. All different shapes and sizes. I’d love to get them all nicely formatted in ebook form, but alas, they are long out-of-print and what is available online are poor quality scans. But I digress.

About a year ago, I doubled down on my books…what did I really want to keep. I certainly NEVER want to move them again, and while we aren’t likely to move for another 10 years from our pseudo-forever home, I won’t let them go with a simple wave. No, I’ve held on to them this long, some for 40 years, and now I am invested. I feel like I have to make the time investment — and money — worth it somehow.

Part of my plan is making sure that I give them away, not just dump them in a landfill. That is not as easy as lots of people think. “Oh, give them to x group”. Except most of your likely target groups will hold them for a very short time, if they take them at all, and if they don’t have a sale, they cart them off to the dump. I want something better for my friends final resting place. At the least I would hope they would be loved by someone at least one more time.

Another part of my plan is that for some of the books, I will grab the e-book version if I can. Very few are in public domain, but if they are, I can likely find them. I have hopes that I will eventually be able to do at least a basic review of them.

A far more seditious part though is a desire to hold them for Jacob. He loves mysteries, and it was a large source of pride and enjoyment for me to see him plow through all 42 3I books. He loved the series too. He even read it a second time once he finished the first round. And when I look at some of the books in my series, I can see books that I would love to introduce him to…

Agatha Christie novels are obvious. So are Sherlock Holmes. Maybe a little harder edge at some point with Elmore Leonard or the Jane Whitefield series by Thomas Perry, or the Reacher novels by Lee Child. The McNally series started by Lawrence Sanders. Well, almost anything by Lawrence Sanders. Some of the sweeping sagas by Jeffrey Archer. The Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald. Oh, and the Spenser for Hire series by Robert B. Parker.

House of Night for the fantasy realm, which seems a lot like Harry Potter for the teen set until the main character witnesses fellow students engaging in oral sex in a darkened hallway. Yeah, those need to wait a bit.

And on a strange psychological level that I don’t understand, I would love love love to see Jacob reading the Sackett series of western novels by Louis L’Amour. Many of the above titles, but especially L’Amour, were books that I was introduced to by my father. He would read voraciously sitting in his kitchen chair in the morning, and there were always 2 or 3 pocket books beside his chair in the kitchen or out at the lake. Garage sale purchases by my Mom, she frequently would grab 10-12 per week and stock up. Why do I think there is some psych stuff buried in there? Because just the thought of my son reading books that my Dad read is enough for me to be tearing up while writing this paragraph. Must be allergies to the dust on the books.

Now I know that is mainly rationalization. An excuse not to get rid of them. But oddly enough, trying to work on my weight, and confronting some of the psych that goes with that was enough of a small impetus to start going through my books. I used to have a huge tracking list, long out of date, for the various series. Yet if I was getting rid of the books, I wanted SOME sort of list of what I had once owned.

In the short-term, I was keeping a short list of what I was putting in each box:

  1. 66 books – Star Trek;
  2. 19 books – Star Trek;
  3. 39 books – 17 Louis L’Amour, 1 Sue Grafton, 8 Star Trek, 4 John D. MacDonald, 1 Jeffrey Archer, 3 Robert B. Parker, 1 James Bond, 1 Charlaine Harris, 1 Laura Lippman, 1 House of Night, 1 David Baldacci;
  4. 23 books – 6 Tom Clancy, 1 David Stone, 1 David Levien, 1 Alison Gordon, 1 Tanya Huff, 1 Brian Freeman, 1 Lustbader/Ludlum, 1 Lawrence Block, 1 Lee Child, 1 Robert B. Parker, 3 Star Trek, 1 Programming, 1 Janet Evanovich, 1 Ian Rankin, 1 Perri O’Shaugnessy, 1 Lawrence Sanders;
  5. 24 books – 5 Robert Ludlum, 2 Steve Berry, 2 David Baldacci, 2 x Shortstories, Lee Child, John Grisham, John Twelve Hawks, Terry Pratchett, John Ramsey Miller, William Lashner, James Lee Burke, Kate Mosse, Yasutaka Tsutsui, RIck Mofina, Robert B. Parker, Agatha Christie, Robertson Davies;
  6. 09 books – 5 Star Wars, 1 PC Cast, 1 Kazuo Isiguro, 1 Lawrence Sanders, 1 Charlaine Harris; and;
  7. 43 books – 32 Agatha Christie, 2 x Mitch Albom, 1x the rest –> Walter Mosley, Arthur C. Clarke, William Coughlin, Elmore Leonard, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Perry, Charles Dickens, Peter Haining, Alan Dean Foster.

So my first purge would be a simple 223 books, or about 10% of the hoard (although I like the idea that it is not hoarding if it’s organized!). I reached out to a few places that people suggested, and met with rejection across the board. Most places are happy to take the latest best seller, as would most used bookstores, but nobody wants the backlists. Except the archives right next to my house shares space with the Friends of the Ottawa Public Library. And once a month, they open a store in the lobby of the library and sell books, CDs, DVDs, audio collections, etc. I think their prices are a bit high — I can picture my mother going there and saying, “Well I hope they like their stuff, because they’ll have most of it still at the end of the sale!” — but I’m more disposed to things “moving” than worrying if it gets its value back to the library. But they’re the ones who have to sort and store and lay it all out. Most importantly, my collection fit their parameters of what they’ll take. Almost all of it in fact. A chance for the books to move on to a new home. What do they do if they have it for awhile and it doesn’t sell? I don’t want to know, honestly.

For me, it is enough to know I didn’t trash them and they have a chance to find a new reader again. And in Andrea’s view, anything that gets my crap out the door is a good thing. 🙂 I also bookmarked a bunch on the ‘net so I could track them later and the full list is below.

Phase 1 is complete though — I purged some books.

A. C. CrispinStar Trek: The Next Generation – 014 – The Eyes of the Beholders
Agatha Christie4.50 From Paddington
Agatha ChristieThe Murder on the Links
Agatha ChristieHickory Dickory Dock
Agatha ChristieThe Regatta Mystery And Other Stories
Agatha ChristieAt Bertram’s Hotel
Agatha ChristieThe murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha ChristiePoirot’s Early Cases
Agatha ChristieCurtain Poirots Last Case
Agatha ChristieMrs McGinty’s Dead
Agatha ChristieThe A B C Murders
Agatha ChristieElephants Can Remember: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Agatha ChristieLabours of Hercules
Agatha ChristieThe Golden Ball and Other Stories
Agatha ChristieBy the pricking of my thumbs
Agatha ChristieDeath Comes As the End
Agatha ChristieParker Pyne Investigates
Agatha ChristieThe Man in the Brown Suit
Agatha ChristieCards on the Table
Agatha ChristieAnd Then There Were None
Agatha ChristieOne, Two, Buckle My Shoe
Agatha ChristieThe Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories
Alan Dean FosterThe Last Starfighter
Arthur C. ClarkeDolphin Island
Barbara HamblyStar Wars: Children of the Jedi
Block, Lawrence.Eight Million Ways to Die
Brad FergusonStar Trek: The Next Generation – 048 – The Last Stand
Brad FergusonStar Trek: The Lost Years: A Flag Full of Stars
Brian FreemanStripped
Cannell, StephenRunaway Heart (2003)
Cathi UnsworthLondon Noir
Charlaine HarrisLiving dead in Dallas
Charlaine HarrisClub Dead
Charles DickensThe Pickwick Papers
Christie GoldenStar Trek: Voyager – 006 – The Murdered Sun
Christie GoldenStar Trek: Voyager – 017 – Marooned
City of the Sun (html)David Levien
Clancy, Tom – Net Force 02Hidden Agendas (1999)
Clancy, Tom – Op Center 07Divide and Conquer (2000)
Cliff McNishThe Silver Child
Coben, HarlanNo Second Chance (2003)
Dafydd Ab HughStar Trek: Voyager – 009 – Invasion! 4 – The Final Fury
Dafydd Ab HughStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 027 – Vengeance
Dafydd Ab HughStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 005 – Fallen Heroes
Dafydd Ab HughStar Trek: The Next Generation – 044 – Balance Of Power
Dana Kramer-RollsStar Trek: The Original Series – 062 – Home is the Hunter
Dave Galanter;Greg BrodeurStar Trek: The Next Generation – 041 – Foreign Foes
Dave SternStar Trek: Enterprise – 008 – Daedalus’s Children
Dave SternStar Trek: Enterprise – 007 – Daedalus
David BischoffStar Trek: The Next Generation – 031 – Grounded
David Dvorkin;Daniel DvorkinStar Trek: The Next Generation – 008 – The Captain’s Honor
David Niall WilsonStar Trek: Voyager – 014 – Chrysalis
David StoneThe Echelon Vendetta
Dean Wesley Smith;Kristine Kathryn RuschStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 017 – The Long Night
Dean Wesley Smith;Kristine Kathryn RuschStar Trek: Voyager – 002 – The Escape
Dean Wesley Smith;Nina Kiriki Hoffman;Kristine Kathryn RuschStar Trek: Voyager – 018 – Echoes
Diane CareyStar Trek: Day of Honor – 1 – Ancient Blood
Diane CareyStar Trek: Deep Space Nine: Station Rage
Diane CareyStar Trek: Voyager – 011 – Flashback
Diane CareyStar Trek: The Next Generation – 035 – Descent
Diane CareyStar Trek: The Next Generation – 001 – Ghost Ship
Diane DuaneStar Trek: The Next Generation – Dark Mirror
Elmore LeonardLaBrava
Esther FriesnerStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 007 – Warchild
Gene DeWeeseStar Trek: The Next Generation – 047 – Into the Nebula
Gene DeWeeseStar Trek: The Next Generation – 002 – The Peacekeepers
Gerber, MichaelBarry Trotter & The Shameless Parody
Howard WeinsteinStar Trek: The Next Generation – 015 – Exiles
Howard WeinsteinStar Trek: The Next Generation – 006 – Power Hungry
Howard WeinsteinStar Trek: The Next Generation – 023 – Perchance to Dream
Ian FlemingYou Only Live Twice
J. M. DillardStar Trek: Enterprise – 005 – Surak’s Soul
J. M. Dillard;Kathleen O’malleyStar Trek: The Next Generation – 052 – Possession
J. M. Dillard;Michael Piller;Rick BermanStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 001 – Emissary
J.M. DillardStar Trek V: The Final Frontier
Jeffrey ArcherA Prisoner of Birth
Jenny CarrollWhen Lightning Strikes
Jenny NimmoCharlie Bone and the Invisible Boy
Jenny NimmoChildren of the Red King Book 01 Midnight for Charlie Bone
Jenny NimmoCharlie Bone and the Castle of Mirrors
Jenny NimmoChildren of the Red King Book 02 Charlie Bone and the Time Twister
John D MacDonaldThe Executioners (aka Cape Fear)
John D. MacDonaldKitten on a Trampoline
John D. MacDonaldThe Deep Blue Good-By
John D. MacDonaldYou Live Once
John D. MacDonaldNightmare in Pink
John D. MacDonaldWine of the Dreamers: A Novel
John D. MacDonaldWhere Is Janice Gantry?
John D. MacDonaldWeep For Me
John D. MacDonaldThe Neon Jungle
John D. MacDonaldThe Price of Murder
John D. MacDonaldThe Only Girl in the Game
John D. MacDonaldThe Last One Left
John D. MacDonaldThe Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldThe House Guests
John D. MacDonaldThe end of the night
John D. MacDonaldThe Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything
John D. MacDonaldThe Drowner
John D. MacDonaldThe Empty Trap
John D. MacDonaldThe Damned
John D. MacDonaldThe Brass Cupcake
John D. MacDonaldThe Deceivers
John D. MacDonaldSoft touch
John D. MacDonaldThe Crossroads
John D. MacDonaldSlam the Big Door
John D. MacDonaldOne More Sunday
John D. MacDonaldThe Beach Girls
John D. MacDonaldPlease Write for Details
John D. MacDonaldOne Monday We Killed Them All
John D. MacDonaldOn the Run
John D. MacDonaldMurder in the Wind
John D. MacDonaldMurder for the Bride
John D. MacDonaldJudge Me Not
John D. MacDonaldMore Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldEnd of the Tiger
John D. MacDonaldDeath Trap
John D. MacDonaldI Could Go on Singing
John D. MacDonaldDeath Quotient and Other Stories
John D. MacDonaldDeadly Welcome
John D. MacDonaldDead Low Tide
John D. MacDonaldContrary Pleasure
John D. MacDonaldCry Hard, Cry Fast
John D. MacDonaldBarrier Island
John D. MacDonaldClemmie
John D. MacDonaldCondominium
John D. MacDonaldBallroom of the Skies
John D. MacDonaldAll These Condemned
John D. MacDonaldArea of Suspicion
John D. MacDonaldApril Evil
John D. MacDonaldA Man of Affairs
John D. MacDonaldA Key to the Suite
John D. MacDonaldA Flash of Green
John D. MacDonaldA Bullet for Cinderella
John D. MacDonaldCinnamon Skin
John D. MacDonaldThe Lonely Silver Rain
John D. MacDonaldThe Green Ripper
John D. MacDonaldFree Fall in Crimson
John D. MacDonaldThe Dreadful Lemon Sky
John D. MacDonaldThe Empty Copper Sea
John D. MacDonaldThe Turquoise Lament
John D. MacDonaldThe Scarlet Ruse
John D. MacDonaldThe Long Lavender Look
John D. MacDonaldDress Her in Indigo
John D. MacDonaldA Tan and Sandy Silence
John D. MacDonaldThe Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
John D. MacDonaldPale Gray for Guilt
John D. MacDonaldOne Fearful Yellow Eye
John D. MacDonaldDarker Than Amber
John D. MacDonaldBright Orange for the Shroud
John D. MacDonaldA Deadly Shade of Gold
John D. MacDonaldThe Quick Red Fox
John D. MacDonaldA Purple Place for Dying
John PeelStar Trek: The Next Generation – 036 – Here there be Dragons
John VornholtStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 009 – Antimatter
John VornholtStar Trek: The Next Generation – 051 – Rogue Saucer
John VornholtStar Trek: The Next Generation – 017 – Contamination
John VornholtStar Trek: The Next Generation – 027 – War Drums
John VornholtStar Trek: The Next Generation – 007 – Masks
John Vornholt;Gene RoddenberryStar Trek: The Next Generation – 083 – The Genesis Wave 3
Karen HaberStar Trek: Voyager – 012 – Bless the Beasts
Kazuo IshiguroThe remains of the day
Keith ShareeStar Trek: The Next Generation – 012 – Gulliver’s Fugitives
Kevin J. AndersonStar Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy II: Dark Apprentice
Kij Johnson;Greg CoxStar Trek: The Next Generation – 050 – Dragon’s Honor
L. A. GrafStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 019 – Invasion! 3 – Time’s Enemy
L. A. GrafStar Trek: Day of Honor – 2 – Armageddon Sky
L. A. Graf;Michael Piller;Jeri Taylor;Rick BermanStar Trek: Voyager – 001 – The Caretaker
L.A. GrafStar Trek: The Original Series – 073 – Death Count
L’amour, Louis – Sackett’s 09Sackett (1961)
Laura LippmanTo the Power of Three
Laurell K. HamiltonStar Trek: The Next Generation – 030 – Nightshade
Lawrence SandersMcNally’s Puzzle
Lee ChildDie Trying
Lee ChildBad Luck and Trouble
Lemony SnicketThe Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Lois TiltonStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 006 – Betrayal
Louis L’AmourNovel.35.Conagher.1969
Louis L’AmourThe Quick And The Dead
Louis L’AmourNovel 1978 – The Proving Trail (v5.0)
Louis L’AmourCollection 1983 – The Hills Of Homicide (v5.0)
Louis L’AmourSacketts.14.The.Lonely.Men.1969
Louis L’AmourFair Blows the Wind
Louis L’AmourNovel 1971 – Tucker (v5.0)
Louis L’AmourNovel.13.Radigan.1958
Louis L’AmourSacketts.11.Mojave.Crossing.1964
Louis L’AmourShowdown at Yellow Butte (1983)
Louis L’AmourNovel.46.Where.The.Long.Grass.Blows.1976
Louis L’AmourNovel 1959 – The First Fast Draw (v5.0)
Louis L’AmourTalon&Chantry.05.Rivers.West.1975
Louis L’AmourNovel.40.Under.The.Sweetwater.Rim.1971
Louis L’AmourNovel.47.Bendigo.Shafter.1978
Louis L’AmourSacketts.02.To.The.Far.Blue.Mountains.1976
Mark Garland;Charles G. McgrawStar Trek: Voyager – 007 – Ghost of a Chance
Mark HaddonThe curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Mccay;W. A. Mccay;E. L. FloodStar Trek: The Next Generation – 025 – Chains of Command
Mel GildenStar Trek: The Next Generation – 019 – Boogeymen
Melissa ScottStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 010 – Proud Helios
Melissa ScottStar Trek: Voyager – 013 – The Garden
Michael A. StackpoleStar Wars: X-Wing II: Wedge’s Gamble
Michael Jan FriedmanStar Trek: The Next Generation – 016 – Fortune’s Light
Michael Jan FriedmanStar Trek: Day of Honor – 3 – Her Klingon Soul
Michael Jan FriedmanStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 021 – Saratoga
Michael Jan FriedmanStar Trek: The Next Generation – 049 – Crossover
Michael Jan FriedmanStar Trek: The Next Generation: A Call to Darkness
Michael Jan Friedman;Dave SternStar Trek: The Next Generation – 021 – Reunion
Michael Jan Friedman;Kevin RyanStar Trek: The Next Generation – 042 – Requiem
Michael P. Kube-McDowellShield of Lies
Mitch AlbomFive People You Meet In Heaven
Mitch AlbomTuesdays With Morrie
Nathan ArcherStar Trek: Voyager – 003 – Ragnarok
Nathan ArcherStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 012 – Valhalla
Nimmo, JennyCharlie Bone and the Hidden King (Children of the Red King)
P.C. Cast & Kristin CastMarked
P.C. Cast & Kristin CastChosen
Perry, ThomasDeath Benefits
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 018 – Vendetta
Peter DavidStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 002 – The Siege
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 005 – Martyr
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 007 – The Quiet Place
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 001 – House of Cards
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 002 – Into The Void
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 003 – The Two-Front War
Peter DavidStar Trek: New Frontier – 004 – Endgame
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 020 – Q-In-Law
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 005 – Strike Zone
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Original Series – 067 – The Rift
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 010 – A Rock and a Hard Place
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 028 – Imzadi 1
Peter DavidStar Trek: The Next Generation – 040 – Q-Squared
Peter David;Michael Jan Friedman;Robert Greenberger;Carmen CarterStar Trek: The Next Generation – 013 – Doomsday World
Rebecca NeasonStar Trek: The Next Generation – 034 – Guises of the Mind
Robert B ParkerDouble Deuce
Robert B ParkerGunman’s Rhapsody
Robert B ParkerPlaymates
Robert B ParkerSchool Days
Robert B ParkerGod Save the Child
Robert GreenbergerStar Trek: The Next Generation – 046 – The Romulan Stratagem
Robert LudlumThe Matarese Countdown
Robert LudlumThe Altman Code
Robert LudlumThe Bourne Betrayal
Robert LudlumThe Aquitaine Progression
Robert LudlumThe Ambler Warning
Robert Ludlum & Eric Van LustbaderBourne 4 – The Bourne Legacy
Robert ScheckleyStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 014 – The Laertian Gamble
Robertson DaviesFifth Business
Sandy SchofieldStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 004 – The Big Game
Simon HawkeStar Trek: The Next Generation – 045 – Blaze of Glory
Simon HawkeStar Trek: The Next Generation – 033 – The Romulan Prize
Smoke & Shadows (Ver 1.1) Tanya Huff – [Darkest Night 01]
Stephen FreyThe Fourth Order
Susan WrightStar Trek: Deep Space Nine – 023 – Tempest
Susan WrightStar Trek: Voyager – 004 – Violations
Susan WrightStar Trek: The Next Generation – 037 – Sins of Commission
T. L. MancourStar Trek: The Next Generation – 024 – Spartacus
Terry PratchettThe Colour of Magic
Thomas PerryPursuit
Tom ClancyRed Storm Rising
Tom ClancyThe Sum of All Fears
Tom ClancyT. Clancy – 02 The Hunt for Red October
V. E. MitchellStar Trek: The Next Generation – 026 – Imbalance
Vonda McIntyreThe Crystal Star
Vonda N. McIntyreStar Trek III: The Search for Spock
W. R. ThompsonStar Trek: The Next Generation – 038 – Debtor’s Planet
W. R. ThompsonStar Trek: The Next Generation – 055 – Infiltrator
Walter MosleyA Little Yellow Dog
William J CoughlinThe Twelve Apostles
William J. CoughlinThe Judgment
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