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[alaterdate]

I finally really really ran out of bookshelf space. Even with all my books squished together and on top of each other. Even with a couple of vanity shelves on the wall with manga lining them. I have too many books for the amount of shelf space.

In 2018 I started reading Kindle books because I was running out of physical space. Started really utilizing my local library soon after that too. And yet, here I am two years later with no more space.
I even have a stack of books in the closet 😭

The last time I cleaned out my collection was March 2019 I think. I remember donating a brand new book that sucked to the library and I sold all my Vampire Knight volumes ✌ I have another bundle of books to give away, but world things happened. So that pile has been in a bankers box in the corner of my room since April :^\

I still need to buy a few more volumes of Kuroko's Basketball and I am absolutely buying the Blue Wraith omnibus in September. So I went out today and bought another bookshelf. Another bookshelf I am going to stuff FULL of books lmao. But this means I need to clean and sort through what I have once more. The donation pile may get larger. Out of all the books I physically own only about 30 are unread though so I think I'm doing really good on that front 👍

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[queenlua]

i already needed to get a larger bookshelf before COVID... and then being inside all the time = acquiring more books... so yeah my book collection is currently arrayed across a variety of coffee tables, in closets, etc, so i feel you :P

[alaterdate]

I ordered quite a few books over the last few months too. Caught up on some manga series and I hate when all the volumes of a singe title don't fit on a single row. I already have several titles pushed into the deep recesses of the shelf while my favorites are displayed in front of them, but now that three volumes of KNB don't fit in the line (and I have a few more to buy) that was the last straw with trying to squeeze everything in there.

We also decided to rearrange the shared space a while ago and that meant tossing an ugly old worn bookshelf from the living room on which I had many art books. Having to put those back in my own room caused me a small crisis and I got rid of clothes and other things to fit them. Priorities lmao.

I tried so hard to not buy another bookcase, but now I just need to not put the donation pile books back onto the shelf xD