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I just removed an entire liquor-box full* of books from the cookbook shelf, enabling me to shelve the cookbooks that were on the floor! Bliss!

My secret? I installed BookCatalogue on my Android** smartphone. Then my husband pulled books we didn't need often. I scanned the barcodes, he read out ISBNs for pre-barcode books, and I hand-catalogued pre-ISBN books. All of them were labeled 2014-01. Then the box was labeled 2014-01. Then -gasp- the box was taped shut! Oh bliss oh rapture oh Julia Child is back where she belongs*** again!

Next up: the bedroom shelves, thus exposing the bedroom floor. Whee!

* So what's your unit of measurement?
** There are iOS equivalents.
*** On the shelf. Nobody puts Julia in the corner.

Note for those not currently inhabiting my mind: Throwing away books causes anxiety. Deciding which books I don't need immediately causes anxiety, because WHAT IF I WANT THEM? Catalogued books don't cause anxiety. Furthermore, the three-step "Do I need this now? Will I need it someday? Do I really need it at all?" is much, much less strenuous than "Do I want this, or do I want to throw it away?"

Note: "Throw it away" here means "donate to the library book sale", not "Consign it to the flamy fires of DOOM".
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