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Physical books are great. But moving them is an absolute nightmare.
I had a bad falling out with a flatmate years ago and I basically had to say "fuck it" to maybe hundreds of books collected over a decade. It was my liberal phase, so I don't know how much of it I'd like to have now. The break made me the communist I am today, so I can't say I'm that sad.
I feel like we all have the dream of having a massive library room of our own, but who the fuck can afford that nowadays.
Before I packed up to go travelling China I resolved to give away all my books to charity (barring a very select few that went to friends for safe keeping).
Asides from it being absolute murder to move them, they acted as a really good history of how I've changed as a person. A lot of liberal bullshit books amongst what a gave away that I was genuinely upset to be giving to anyone. I should have burned them
this is the process I went through recently when I found Bernie's 2018 book Where We Go From Here: Two Years in The Resistance on my bookshelf. I have a deep-seated block against burning books but I think I might work through it for this one
Too true. I have a pretty big collection of TTRPG books that are all fat hardcovers that look nice but moving them upstairs was rough.