Posted by Jim at March 6th, 2004

I’ve got way, way too many books.

A couple years ago, we had our basement redone into a family room/entertainment area. Among other things, we had shelves for books put into the walls. Within the last week, we finally got around to some finishing touches for those walls and were able to move in the books.

That’s what I did for most of this evening.

For the first time in several years, I’m able to see most of my (and my wife’s) books at one time. The collection includes science fiction, computer related books (languages, databases, distributed systems, usability), religion (hebrew, koine greek, ancient culture, church history, missiology), sociology (social theory, social research, statistics), and social work (individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, social research).

And that’s just the catagories which take up large chunks of shelving. Also in there are comics, poetry, graphic design history & practice,books about writing, humor (David Barry, David Sedaris…) and an eclectic selection of other books (an example: “Our Friend, the Atom”).

Sixty feet of shelving and not everything fits. We’ve still got a few books on the floor of our bedroom.