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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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My secret to success is that I already donated a lot of the ones I hadn't read after years of them sitting on my shelf unopened. Mostly partially read true crime and random novels I picked up from dollar stores :^p

Oi yeah, I remember trying to pick up a box and almost dying. You pick up one and it's so light so somehow you foolishly don't expect a box full to make you keel over lol.
I am a lot stronger now though (`v`)و
Except... I do own a lot more oversized books now in comparison to last time I moved (;'~')

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The trick is to only ever half-fill a box with books, and fill the rest with things like linen or lunch boxes ;)

Oh, the dollar store... human flypaper.