In Reply to: +1. I consider them trophies on my shelves or stacked on my posted by UCLADal on November 21, 2025 at 12:27:39
and decided there was no reason to hold on to a big chunk ofthem if I know I'm not going to read them again and won't be lending them to friends and family either.
I also realized that my trade paperback (or hard cover) comics and graphic novels needed more space and I was actually getting much more re-read value from them. So I moved a bunch of them out, gave them away, shrunk the collection to a couple of shelves, and used the rest of the space for my comics. And I do pick them up and reread them with some frequency. (I've had to do some purge with those as well, in the process.)
If I don't absolutely love the book, it's given away (to some used book store, for store credit). Space is finite, after all, and stuff is not.
I am doing the same thing with my records and cd's. I've taken a bunch to a local record store for store credit (and picked up some aweome ones in eschange). And now I can fit into my self-impoosed allotted space much better and I have all and only the albums that I consider to be good. I am an ex-completist on rehab, in a way.
(It is not he who dies with most toys, it is he who dies with the best toys.)