Book Triage

My process of choosing what to take with us

Not my books! But we have a lot. Photo by Aneta Pawlik on Unsplash

To get our house ready to sell (in preparation for our move to France), I’m starting by taking a first pass through our massive book collection. And I do mean “massive.”

I read a lot — between 85 and 130 novel-length books per year. I use the public library, and I do have a Kindle, but I still buy quite a few books and receive even more as gifts. The rest of our large…