We have 'done' two six foot high, three foot wide bookcases.
The process is that we take all the books off, then one of us will go and put back all the ones they actually want - not the ones that they think someone else might and not the ones that they think that they ought, just the ones that they want. And if you want to keep a book you do not have to justify it, it is enough that you want it.
There is at least three times that amount of books still to go through, and it is like painting the Forth Bridge before the new paint, but it is a good feeling.
It always raises some interesting questions. There are the books you really want to read but haven't yet, there are the reference books and the books that are hard to replace. However I found we had somehow acquired a multitude of copies of the Imitation of Christ. I don't remember ever buying them, I am confident that OH or darling father didn't - so where did they come from? And while 'The Imitation of Christ' isn't necessarily solely Roman Catholic book, neither myself, OH or any of either of our immediate family are Roman Catholic. I know one or two that were inherited, and I have kept them. The rest have gone.
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