Packing away your books is a slightly melancholy exercise. It is hard to decide which are the ones you are going to keep on your shelves and which are the ones going to be locked away for quite some time. You (or at least I) also can no longer avoid recognizing the increasing number of 'Important' books that have been bought and not read.

I felt slightly foolish browsing through the business bestsellers from the 1999-2000 time frame championing the dawn of a new era. I think 'Information Rules' is one of the most brilliant books in that genre that came out in the last few years. 'Blown to bits' is also very good, if slightly dizzy. But a lot of authors produced stuff that is now almost redundant.

I blew way too much money in books. The new motto in my life is, love thy library. Hopefully, if and when I start making decent money again, the motto will not change.

We are busy packing with gusto. Moving house at the end of stuff. It is amazing the amount of stuff we accumulated in only a few months. And how much it hurts to let them go.