If you ever do read those, then it is not a problem at all. The problem is about those books waiting to be read.
See, I tend to purchase and pile up so many books I like to read (some from discount book shelves). The problem is I just do not have enough time and stamina. Our life is rather limited. When coming across so many titles and area of interests, it is impossible to get hands on them, however appetizing they are. Even physicality of the volumes and weight is distressing aspect of having books. Some day there would a decent reader (mimicing paper) with electronic downloading.
Recently I have tried downloaded electronic magazines such as PC Magazine. The probems I have encountered: one thing limits its usefulness is that I cannot read these in the toilet (it used to be my favorite study when kids are small and this was one place I could hide myself for reading). Another, the flipping is so slow, it is practically useless without ability to 'book' browse. To read after flipped pages, you have to zoom in and out every time and recenter or scroll up and down! It may be possible to read without zooming if I have 23" LCD monitor! Electronic magazine would be very much useful for magazine of a smaller pages and for specialty magazine, esp. from overseas. But it would take another decade to see that.
My personal solution about 'many books': If I go on Amazon.com, for example, with intent to buy books (or classic music CD), I click them to the Wish-list. Same for the discount book seller's website (www.daedalusbooks.com. And now it's important: do not check out but keep them for a week and revisit and check each one asking question: What do need this for? What does it make difference for my life and for my living? Just for info? for fun? If books are for learning something, what does teach me and how I am going learn/absorb and actually do it?.
With unavoidable aging, the remainder of my life is limited. I will not solve all these problems without the purpose of/in my life clear. This means it is going to be not static but changing (evolving). The filter I use is asking questions such as:
1. Does it help me keep it (life) simpler?
2. Does it help me honor my Lord?
3. How does it help in the area of "security/survival" "self-identity" "stimulus for creativity"
May God bless you with all the good things coming in the pages.
If you ever do read those, then it is not a problem at all. The problem is about those books waiting to be read.
See, I tend to purchase and pile up so many books I like to read (some from discount book shelves). The problem is I just do not have enough time and stamina. Our life is rather limited. When coming across so many titles and area of interests, it is impossible to get hands on them, however appetizing they are. Even physicality of the volumes and weight is distressing aspect of having books. Some day there would a decent reader (mimicing paper) with electronic downloading.
Recently I have tried downloaded electronic magazines such as PC Magazine. The probems I have encountered: one thing limits its usefulness is that I cannot read these in the toilet (it used to be my favorite study when kids are small and this was one place I could hide myself for reading). Another, the flipping is so slow, it is practically useless without ability to 'book' browse. To read after flipped pages, you have to zoom in and out every time and recenter or scroll up and down! It may be possible to read without zooming if I have 23" LCD monitor! Electronic magazine would be very much useful for magazine of a smaller pages and for specialty magazine, esp. from overseas. But it would take another decade to see that.
My personal solution about 'many books': If I go on Amazon.com, for example, with intent to buy books (or classic music CD), I click them to the Wish-list. Same for the discount book seller's website (www.daedalusbooks.com. And now it's important: do not check out but keep them for a week and revisit and check each one asking question: What do need this for? What does it make difference for my life and for my living? Just for info? for fun? If books are for learning something, what does teach me and how I am going learn/absorb and actually do it?.
With unavoidable aging, the remainder of my life is limited. I will not solve all these problems without the purpose of/in my life clear. This means it is going to be not static but changing (evolving). The filter I use is asking questions such as:
1. Does it help me keep it (life) simpler?
2. Does it help me honor my Lord?
3. How does it help in the area of "security/survival" "self-identity" "stimulus for creativity"
May God bless you with all the good things coming in the pages.