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This morning I did two loads of wasjing and moved my books and WWII tanks out of the room ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wasup_bro is using. Now comes the hard part.
Can I force myself to get rid of any of them? Of course I'm keeping the good stuff, the Gaiman- signed hardbacks, etc, but the approximately 20 shelf metres of paper-backs that includes such "classics" (he says with tongue in cheek) as the first thirty odd Orbit-edition Perry Rhodans, and the majority of the Jon Norman Gor titles, and potential collectibles such as Man From U.N.C.L.E and Captain Scarlet spin-off novels... do I really need to keep them?
The thing is that some of the the lesser known books may never be printed again, and may never be made available electronically, so if I get rid of them they may be completely lost...may be I should try and convince myself that in many cases that is a good thing. It's difficult though.
The tanks will probably be easier to get rid of. Some are embarrassingly poorly painted, as they date from the mid 1970's when I was a kid walking up to the Wellington Warlords venue in the church at Wadestown from the train station lugging my box of tanks and troops.
It's amazing how long I've kept these things. It is also becomes apparent how much I have bought over the last five or so years when I see that I now have five Space Marine boxes. Admittedly one is empty, another actually has LoTR figures in it, and another is full of just miniature cardboard skyscrapers, but it is scary to realize that I have also sold at least two Space Marine box-sets, and I still have five boxes.
I'm also resellingvizi's Diplomacy set. I got it coz it was cheap and I thought, oh, it might be good to have a spare copy at that price. But when I went to put it away I realized that I already had two copies... what an idiot. At least some-one has bid on it.
I've been spending all my spare moments reading through MegaTokyo. I sort of wish i'd done that before Conspiracy now. There are references to old animé in there that I bet many of it's fans haven't seen, and I could have let Piro know someone picked them. Also he has a Seraph too. And I wish I;d been able to get one of the old "Emotional Doll System" shirts before they sold out. Coz they is blue and they have E.D.S on them, and it would have been real amusing to wear it work.
Cozseraphs_folly has also been reading MT, we were briefly infected by Largo-ness last night and there were bursts of 1337 between us. Which reminds me, thinking of modern languages developed by social subcultures I don't think I've passed on LOL code here yet
wasup_bro is using. Now comes the hard part. Can I force myself to get rid of any of them? Of course I'm keeping the good stuff, the Gaiman- signed hardbacks, etc, but the approximately 20 shelf metres of paper-backs that includes such "classics" (he says with tongue in cheek) as the first thirty odd Orbit-edition Perry Rhodans, and the majority of the Jon Norman Gor titles, and potential collectibles such as Man From U.N.C.L.E and Captain Scarlet spin-off novels... do I really need to keep them?
The thing is that some of the the lesser known books may never be printed again, and may never be made available electronically, so if I get rid of them they may be completely lost...may be I should try and convince myself that in many cases that is a good thing. It's difficult though.
The tanks will probably be easier to get rid of. Some are embarrassingly poorly painted, as they date from the mid 1970's when I was a kid walking up to the Wellington Warlords venue in the church at Wadestown from the train station lugging my box of tanks and troops.
It's amazing how long I've kept these things. It is also becomes apparent how much I have bought over the last five or so years when I see that I now have five Space Marine boxes. Admittedly one is empty, another actually has LoTR figures in it, and another is full of just miniature cardboard skyscrapers, but it is scary to realize that I have also sold at least two Space Marine box-sets, and I still have five boxes.
I'm also reselling
vizi's Diplomacy set. I got it coz it was cheap and I thought, oh, it might be good to have a spare copy at that price. But when I went to put it away I realized that I already had two copies... what an idiot. At least some-one has bid on it. I've been spending all my spare moments reading through MegaTokyo. I sort of wish i'd done that before Conspiracy now. There are references to old animé in there that I bet many of it's fans haven't seen, and I could have let Piro know someone picked them. Also he has a Seraph too. And I wish I;d been able to get one of the old "Emotional Doll System" shirts before they sold out. Coz they is blue and they have E.D.S on them, and it would have been real amusing to wear it work.
Coz
seraphs_folly has also been reading MT, we were briefly infected by Largo-ness last night and there were bursts of 1337 between us. Which reminds me, thinking of modern languages developed by social subcultures I don't think I've passed on LOL code here yet
