Slowly The Book Collection Dwindles In Physical Form

I've been busy lately. My plan is simple - get rid of all the books.

Well, maybe not all. But roughly 95% of them are going out the window.

I've been throwing everything up on Ebay. The last four boxes of comics are almost on there. I started throwing a lot more of the books and collected editions. It is time for them to go.

Why the big purge? Because I decided to go digital. Also, in part to go a little more minimalist as well. Having been in Austin with a bunch of my stuff in storage has made me less fond of having to drag all that stuff out and around whenever I get settled in. I'm still in a state of being in-between places but hopefully that will be done shortly.

The plan is to get a Fire HD 10.1 screen from Amazon. Why that one? Because it becomes very close to a comic book size and digital comics look amazing on it. I'm tired of lugging around all the books and having it take up space on a bookshelf. Let me cut it all down to the ones that I have some sort of personal attachment to and get rid of the rest. For what I can sell it on Ebay, I could easily buy it again in digital form for about a buck an issue. What does that get me? A lot less stuff to carry around, a glorious device to read them again if I need to, and some cash in my pocket.

I figured I would start with the books and then slowly move over to the video games as well. There is a little more work to make sure I have everything backed up the way I want it, and I want to make sure that I don't miss the systems as much as I think I do. There are some games that I want to get, and I would hope to get a Retron 5 to be able to but some of the older systems to the side and have the gaming area take up less room next to the TV.

Am I missing the comics as they are going out the door to the post office? Not so much. There are some things I am missing, but I've sold them before and gotten again later when I had the cash and desire to re-read them. I've been in a mode for a while where I just want to experience the new things and cast aside the old things. The world is just a little bit bigger, and there is more that I want to experience and see and learn. Re-treading on familiar ground is comforting, but I don't always want to fall in to the trap that the past can become.

Each box I deliver out the door is a little less weight that I have to deal with on my shoulders. When it is more of a relief, I figure that must mean something.