☕ I UNHAULED 1/3 OF MY LIBRARY!! 😏 | TEA, STATS & A SALTY UNHAUL! | Literary Diversions
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In which I tell you why I culled my library by ⅓, how many books I now own, what my current stats are, and what my opinions are on owning books for the aesthetics…
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I have to confess that I am a book reader but I am not a book collector. About 80% of the books that I read come from the library and my entire physical TBR occupies only two shelves. I don't buy a lot a books and even of the ones that I do buy, I keep very few. Most of the books that I own and have read, end up in a Free Little Library or a donation pile. If I am going to keep a book is because 1) I love it; 2) I am going to re-read it; or 3) I have an emotional connection. I love watching BookTubers with a massive library behind them, but that is not my thing. And I'm okay with that. As always, great video!! 🗑
Yes same!
I'm the same! I read around 50-100 books a year and I don't even have a full bookshelf because of my heavy use of the library
I'm a library girlie as well. More than 95% of my read list I didn't own. I would never be able to afford to buy that many books nor have a place to put them lol
Same. From the beginning to now I've gone from like 500 books to less than 100. Now I just use the library and KU. I have some books I need to read then downsize though
I need to utilize my library again. That was my go-to place back in highschool. But i stopped because all the books i wanted to read right away i had to wait a really long time for
I am an unapologetic unhauler! So much that I founded the local book exchange to make everyone around me unhaul 4 times a year 😅 (and get new books from other people's unhauls) 🗑♻️
I’m only 5 minutes in and it already resonates so much, I am both a book collector and an avid reader so my library is a mash of well worn and collectors and friends do not always understand why I feel the need to have say 3 copies of all my Jane Austens in my collection
I feel called out by this. I collect pretty editions of Pride and Prejudice xD
i love your take on owning books and having your own little library. while i use the library for my audiobooks (which is like 75% of what i read), i do also own a lot of books as well. my friends always say “you’ll never have the time to read everything you buy” and im like okay?? i own them to have them in my own personal library. it doesn’t ultimately matter to me if i get to all of them because i just like having them around me. i also keep a lot of the books i’ve read even if i very rarely reread just in case (and because their presence is just comforting).
I identify so strongly with this. I have unhauled a good chunk of books and found that 2023 was full of me reading books I felt very indifferent toward. It was the highest number of books I had ever read in one year, but I was avoiding larger books that I probably would've enjoyed more. I know when I ultimately move, I'll unhaul even more books. I dream about having the space to build a library full of books I love and books I'm excited to read in the future. I'm done with slogging through things that aren't working for me or holding onto books that don't mean anything to me.
Purging and organizing are two of the seriously most satisfying things in the world for me, and I'm glad it's worked out so well for you. Such a joy to look at your shelves with nothing but eye-twinkle. 😻 🗑
for me, because I live in a small apartment, I tend to unhaul books that I've read almost immediately if I don't intend on rereading them (I usually read too slowly for library books). As a result, my solitary bookcase is full of things I haven't yet read. But it also means that I'm very selective about the books I do buy. It's a double-edged sword, but I know my collection will expand once I live in a bigger place
I am so overdue for a major unhaul. This was great inspiration. And I tend to do a genre at a time when I unhaul. Otherwise I get overwhelmed and can’t make a single decision about anything. 😂 🗑️
🗑 Congratulations! That's quite a feat. I did a major unhaul (about 300 books) because I intended to move to another province and didn't want to pack/pay to move a bunch of books I may not read. The move didn't happen but all is well in my world. Now I have a very small collection of books that I will read again, as well as a little TBR cart that currently has 33 books on it, including the GoT series that I borrowed over a year ago.
Since moving to my new home, we have installed a little free library and I now have a shelf for books that I know I won't read again, which are added to the little free library when it needs to be restocked. I find that I know right after I finish a book if I will read it again, so it's a good time to make that decision.
My goal is to get the book cart cleared off and then spend one full year reading exclusively from the library/little free libraries in my neighborhood, as well as re-reading the books that I decided to keep. 🙂
I have a large library collection because I love rereading books or referencing them again, and I love having a large TBR pile i can browse any time. BUT I ruthlessly unhaul books I don't love and I enjoy reanalyzing my collection regularly to see if I still want them, because my tastes and interests have certainly evolved. I love this video because it resonates really strongly with me and it's a good reminder that I need to go through my shelves again!!🗑
Good for you! Loved this. At some point i started feeling like book unhaul videos were click bait because they would get rid of 5 books out of 70. I understand a love of books but to sit through 40 mins of that for 3-5 felt like a waste of my time. This gave me SO MUCH motivation! Books ive kept because i loved them but wont reread or books because the author is black dont have to stay. Great, great video!!
I enjoy the variety of ways we as readers collect books, read books, display books, talk about books, unhaul books, etc. My way is currently working for me but one day it may change and that's ok. So i am totally here to learn about your approach to buying/ collecting, displaying/storing books, and when you let go. I am so hoping we get a massive unhaul video where you talk about each book in turn, but appreciate this will be a lengthy undertaking and youve probably gotten the books out of the house. I'm glad you feel so much lighter! ❤🗑🚮
I will now call all of my unhauls breakups! And honestly I'm SO impressed with how many books you broke up with!! 😲
Coming to terms with the fact that I don't enjoy re-reading books made me thoroughly narrow the books I hold onto. It does mean I don't have the dream wall-to-wall bookshelves, but that works better for my brain than all the books staring at me that I have no interest in picking up again. And I still read a ton!
🗑 I had to fight through a lot of judgment when I unhauled the vast majority of my physical books. As much as I love them, I haven't read an actual physical book in several years (other than graphic novels). I keep the physical versions that are my favorites or books I really like but can't find for my Kindle or Audible, and unhauled the rest. I realized that my huge library had taken over the house, and I was not planning on reading any of those versions in that format in the foreseeable future. It's been a giant success.
I've never had the energy or need to unhaul from my Kindle or Audible books; they don't take up physical space, so why bother? But recently, I've been starting to think about how many Kindle books I buy for $1.99 or $2.99, and how many haven't been read. 2 and 3 dollars is cheap, but it still adds up when you're getting 1 or 2 most days...😅
I love this video! I'm a big unhaul watcher because I don't unhaul myself (I have a very small collection of my faves and that's pretty much it, viva la public library) and I love they way you talked about your process. So glad you're happier with what's on your shelves now! 🚮
🗑♻Way to go with the ruthless unhaul! I salute your wisdom and self-knowledge. In the past I would periodically (approx. monthly) gather books to trade in at the used bookstore or Little Free Library. And then I moved to a street with three LFLs on my block and several more in the direct vicinity on an easy driving/parking route. So I started keeping a bag of books in the car for trading purposes, and that made me look at every book I finished reading with the question: Should keep this or trade it for a better book? I got rid of many and also acquired many, to the point that I started supplying friends, lol.
I have a large personal library: a couple of moves ago, a mover weighed the book boxes and said the total was over one ton - 2000 pounds. I know it's more now, because my chief personal luxury and favorite gift has always been books. But I now have to reduce the number drastically due to merging households. So I am using 2024 to be ruthless with the unhauling. My plan: Get my own LFL and keep it stocked with books I no longer want to own. But you can believe I'll keep an eye for any interesting tomes that come into my TARDIS. Yes, I had a bright blue mini phone booth built because I am just that nerdy.
I have once purged ~30% of my books, that was when we were moving abroad and everything had to fit in one van. After that, I've just picked out books I don't think I'll want to read again and release them into the wild. That big, forced cull made getting rid of books much easier 🗑️
as a new mom, my physical tbr has gotten kind of out of control. i have very little time to read now, so it kind of hurts to look at the books on my shelves because i know i just don't have time to read them. but i love collecting! i'm constantly on the lookout for new books or books i've read through my library and loved. i do still read a few books a month, but it's getting harder as my son gets older. i'm due for an unhaul, but it's hard for me to get rid of books i've spent my own money on. it's a mental hurdle i have to jump, but i know i'll be happier when i do!
also, I LOVE your library! we live in a very small house, so i don't have much room to store books. i've got one Ikea bookshelf downstairs, with a smaller 4-cube Ikea bookshelf that holds series and hardbacks. but other than that, i barely have anywhere else to put books! we'll be purchasing a home in the next few years and we are looking for 4-bedroom houses so that we can have an extra room to use as a home office/home library!
I'm "lucky" in that I don't have a 'physical' book collection beyond maybe 6 books (most of my previous collection was lost due to homelessness) that said I do have alot of ebooks (thousands) that I really have to go though since I know I won't and can't ever read them all! I do kind of enjoy organising them though!
What you said on the rivers of London series reminded me of why I don't read the Mercy Thompson series anymore. I don't want to have to read another series to know all the events in that shared universe that get referenced in the Mercy series (plus I tried and cannot stand Charles in the Alpha and Omega books, something about him just annoyed me)
At the end of last year, I only had a tiny bookshelf with a bunch of books that just made me miserable because I couldn't grasp the concept that my reading tastes had changed. Now, I have 2 tiny bookshelves and they're getting filled with books I'm really excited about reading or that I've read and absolutely love!!🗑️
I've just unhauled about 60 books, it normally starts with a pile of books i've DNF'd then i look through my tbr to see what else i can get rid of. Love a good unhaul, doesn't stop me pre-ordering loads though 😅
Good for you! I have 8 books and I'm trying to read them so I can unhaul. 😂 I'm a minimalist and hate clutter and spending money. 🗑
I don't get rid of books very often. I read a lot of books from my audiobook app or the library. And I only buy a book if its not available that way or if I really loved it. When I get rid of a book its almost always right after reading it because it was disappointing
I'm trying to get better at DNFing and unhauling and it's even harder bc there isn't anyone like me in my closest circle so videos like this really help to remind me there are people like me out there😊
i try to keep a trim TBR, cause i notice that if I have a book on my shelf for a long period of time I lose interest 😂 currently though, each month I put my read books in a stack, and at the end of the month, they either go back to the library, go on my shelf like a trophy if I enjoyed them enough, or get unhauled to go to another home. then of course a seasonal ruthless unhaul of the ones still on my shelves, but it's getting trickier and trickier since I unhaul so consistently lol
🗑️ love this so much! I tend to do 2 big unhauls per year, usually one about January and one in late summer just to really get through what I won’t read again. I think for me, I do need to be more ruthless on books I haven’t read- because it’s easy to get rid of books that I didn’t like (for me) but ones I haven’t read it’s hard cause I think what if it’s a favourite? 😂😂
I don't unhaul regularly, but Im planning on rereading a bunch of books in 2024 to see if i still like them. I have so many books on my shelves that i read when I was younger and since my taste has changed I don't know what to think of them. I do want my shelves to spark joy, so I might move some books back to my parents shelves...
I loved this video. I did something similar a couple of weeks ago and unhauled something like 250 books and I'm not even sorry. My bookish friends were aghast at some of the things that went but I feel free and light. So I love this for you. 🗑
A Discovery Of Witches and the WHOLE All Souls series is my favourite EVER!!! The author is a historian so the details are correct in book 2.
My current collecter/reader epiphany I came to last month was that I like pretty books but I like books I love more. I just cancelled 3/4 of my fancy book subscription services.
I spent August reading 3 from each and realised 3/4 of them just had too many misses. Saves me money but I am sad to lose out on the surprise package opening
This gives me strength to cancel one of mine that makes such pretty books but too often the actual story doesn't hit for me. Exclusivity is a dangerous siren call.
If a book is a DNF, then it immediately goes on a pile to donate/sell. There are books that I read and know I won’t ever read again and I pass them along to friends or put them on that same pile. I will also periodically go through my shelves and pull out books that I don’t think I will ever read again and don’t want to keep so I can lend them. Most of my SFF stays and a lot of them have been reread. I’ve even tracked down copies of books I read at the library years ago and loved, so I can reread them if I choose. I very rarely unhaul unread books - I have unread books from years ago and I still want to read them.
Started watching your Anticipated 2024 books then had to come here when you referenced it...I LOVE book stats...I paused you genre breakdown pie chart - it makes me happy 😂😂😂🤓💜📚
This is great! I tend to do a bit of both- unhauling after reading a book if I really don’t feel like keeping it, and also going through my entire collection every now and then! 🗑️
I love your channel so much! I also love your evil queen mug and the three good fairies you have! I just weeded out my books, some book series are staying others I am donating. It was hard because I would have my own library in my home if I could. But I know what series I will stick with and which ones I won't. Hopefully the ones I donate will find a good home.🙂💜
I would say, i unhaul always the books that i did not enjoyed or were mediocre. So that if i look on my shelf as you sad, i see just my favorit books and my TBR with all the new potential favorits
I keep very few books after I've read them, most go into a nice little charity shop pile with zero hurt to my soul...but unhauls still make me want to go raid my bookshelf to see if there's anything lurking that's not making my bookshelf 10000% my most beloved books of all time 😂
🗑️ I absolutely loved this video! Thank you so very much for sharing! ❤️📚
I recently had a library cleanse and it was sooo satisfying. Kept my Rivers of London books for now but in two minds about them. I bought the first 6 as a set & I love the first one, found the second meh, but have been told the series picks up again. But all the recent add-ons do put me off investing my time. And they do take up quite a bit of space on the shelf! 🗑️
lol, unrelated to the unhaul - I'm also sitting on a random chair. I no longer consider my office chair as my own anymore, its my cat's chair that I sometimes borrow from her.
Great video as always. I have been buying books for all my life. I don't unhaul by the book (although it would help with my space issues) & I have 100s of books around the house that I will never read again. The only ones that leave quickly are the ones that I hate so much I bin them instantly. I am a collector as well as a reader I guess. I just love books 🙂 I have forced myself to invest in a kindle this year & I like it far more than I expected plus the space (& money) saving are huge 😶🌫🗑
I audibly gasped when I saw the video title. Love a good unhaul 😎
I am just starting this journey, and this is superb motivation. Thank you! 🚮
🗑I just unhauled and donated a huge chunk of my library a couple weeks ago and now my shelves feel so naked! I guess that just means I need to refill them 😈
I love your thoughts on your library and your reading bingo board. I think the fun part about making reading goals for us is that it makes u realize what we actually have and do. And then move on from that to new ideas and goals. Go you for culling your library like that.
At one time in my life there was a huge library of books. I was still living within the family and those books were considered "our" books. But I was also brought up to use the library which, of course, allowed expansion of reading experience beyond the home shelves. And then as the family members moved, taking some or none of their own identified books the library began to change. Although, in the various places I lived as a young and older adult, I was fond of having many books I didn't always have space. I suppose this to say that I've learned to limit purchases and use the library. Periodic donations occur. But it took till my late 60's to reach a point of letting go. Expressing my identity became more a sharing of titles and author names rather than a showing of the books.
**I really enjoy your channel and nevertheless am a bit jealous of those full shelves!
Wowza! That is a SERIOUS unhaul. My approach now to unhauling is that everything I read throughout the month gets a stack on my living room shorter bookcase. In part for the aesthetic and accountability of posting on instagram for sure lol. But then I also have to acknowledge that stack everyday. I look at them consistently and can easily see what I liked, loved, hated, or was just ok. Then they either are kept, set aside for friends and family that have specific taste that I know, or go into my car to be donated if and when I can find a little free library or a book donation bin.
I am facing homelessness soon, and this means getting rid of my belongings, including books. I thought this was going to be harder than it is. Turns out that a majority of my library was kept just because i liked it and thought I would reread, but it turns out too many books too little time. Too many new ones to dive into. I was keeping them out of sentimentality alone, but found I wasn't that attached to them. So far the keep pile is about 1/4 of my original library, and that is probably going to have to be culled down. I'm also finding a lot of stuff that I don't use, but it was tucked away and not in the way so I didn't think about it. This whole experience has given me a new outlook on "stuff" and commercialism. You learn a lot about the difference between need and want.
This is the video I needed. It motivated to do same. I definitely have a lot of pretty special edition books I never read but obsessively buying new books. I’m going to read what I have and keep what I truly love and would reread no matter if the are special editions or not. Thank you 🙏🏻 🚮🗑️
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I’m an avid un-hauler. If a book gets less than 3 stars, it’s gone. A lot of the 3 stars also go, but not always. If they’re part of a series that I love I’ll keep it, and I have some romances that are 3 stars that I’ll hold on to as well.
Loved how you talked about your process. I always find those discussions intriguing.
I'm not bothering by however anyone wants to have their collection either, its exhausting discourse. For me, I read 200-300 books a year so I can't afford to own that many. Scythe unhaling is the way to go! I'm ruthless with kid lit so I can put books in little free libraries.
I'm terrible at unhauling.
Partly because I don't really have anywhere to sell or donate books to in large numbers, but mostly because I paid money for them and it feels like a waste.
I did, finally, unhaul my copy of Outlander to a LFL. When I bought it, there were only four books in the series.
I'd dnfed it twice, before any time travel occurred, and failed to get invested in the tv show.
🗑 - sometimes as and when. Sept is my Physical TBR count up and i hope to cull and reorganise as I do it.
I have a list of books I Haul throughout the year and I log what I read so I see how much I am reading what I buy. 📚💜
I think it’s so interesting that I have the exact opposite opinion about M.A. Carrick where I love mask of mirrors and really didn’t like Lady TRENT 😂
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That sounds like such a satisfying unhaul! I'm about to move into my very own flat so I've also culled my bookshelves massively. I've been taking advantage of my library so much more over the past couple of years and I've really enjoyed using it to read new releases-especially ones I don't know for certain if I'm going to enjoy!
🗑️ I like rehoming books right away once I’ve read them. I keep only a very few fiction books, but I like to keep nonfiction books about nature. Much love from northern Maine, USA 💖
Oh wow I wasnt aware of the extra editing on the first couple of chapters thing. I am going to look out for this in the next few books I start!
I haven’t bought a book for my home library in well over 2 years. (I have bought a few for my toddlers library) but literally all of my reading consists of what I get from the library. If my library doesn’t have a title I want I request it (we get 5 requests a month). I fell out of love with buying books when I realized I am not a rereader… I don’t do it unless it’s an all time top of the list Favorite. Those books I do want to own and sadly I haven’t found many of those books that I think yes. I need to reread this book immediately.
Coincidence of coincidences, I'm listening to Cemetery Boys now and kinda liking it😅 but I still feel like unhauling a lot of my physical books tbh. We'll see what happens. Loved the video as always!❤
I haven't yet done a massive clear-out, but if I read a book and don't like it, immediately up for sale and off my shelf.
🗑What an awesome video! I love seeing your process.
I am so bad at unhauling. I would probably be better at it if I had access to a second hand bookstore to sell them to. I don’t have the patience for Marketplace 🗑️
Omg i LOVED a spindle splintered series but couldn’t for the life of me get through once and future witches so i called TOD on it. I know you loved it though
I unhaul regularly, usually after i read a book i know i dont want on my shelves, but i know there are books i should remove from my shelves but there isnt a good spot to send them in my area.🗑
🗑 Congrats! It takes a lot to be able to stand back, take in all of your books, and be honest about where you are now compared to where you were when you acquired them. I unhauled the copy of "Frankenstein" that I got in college. It was my first copy and the first time I'd ever read it. I've probably unhauled over 300 books over the years and there's only a couple I wish I had kept (including that one), so that's not a bad average.
I don't care if the books are hardcovers or paperbacks. I don't care if it's aesthetic to look at. I just want to own books I enjoy, which is why I'm trying to get rid of books that don't bring me joy anymore. It's difficult tho
🗑 I unhaul more book by book. Or a few books at a time. I find it hard to unhaul unread books, but I'm getting better at it.
I read Rivers of London until book 7.5 and none of the graphic novels and I’m done. I read the synopsis of the next books and meh, also… where’s my Nightingale? It looks like I’m ok with character development in a series as long as it happens in the same or similar setting. If it’s too different, I loose interest and DNF series whose first books are absolute favorites.
I have a very small library.I have one book I've read over ans over again over 3 decades now.I don't want i t or like it but keep it .
I collect and read by mood got 2 many but sometimes I reread I can start my own library😂🎉
🚮 I unhaul per book but may challenge myself to count all of my books. I go in spurts when buying books. Typically comfort myself with new books. Have a good rest of your day!
Love this video.❤ 🗑
🗑️ I usually get rid of most of the books I read. I have very little shelf space. So I try to only keep ones that I really enjoyed or will reread. That being said, I do have one entire bookcase of unread books. And two small bookcases of read books. I still have to cull them every few months. You don’t realize the pressure that some of the books cause until you get rid of them. I recently got rid of a giant stack of classics that had been eyeing me from across the room. I felt like I SHOULD read classics. But I almost never enjoy them and they were very daunting. Donating those felt like a huge weight was lifted. I SHOULDNT have to read ANYTHING. Its all about what I WANT to read and what makes me excited. It’s a good feeling after you ransack the shelves.
I love getting rid of things, so I typically get rid of books randomly a few at a time. I mostly keep books that I plan on rereading, for me, I don't see the point of keeping books I didn't love. Reading more from the library has helped a lot because now I often don't buy books unless I've already read and loved them.
But, I am running out of room on my shelves, and I did just get a big stack of comics that I had to make room for by getting rid of a stack of equal size. And I'll probably need to start doing that with the rest of my books soon too. It's a never ending problem! 🗑
🗑️🗑️🗑️ no better feeling than a big old clear out! mine make it off the shelves and into the wardrobe I don’t use where they languish until I can commit to a trip to the charity shop. Yorkshire Dog Rescue won’t know what’s hit them when I get there!
I don’t even know what rivers of London are 👀
I'm so proud to unhaul books, my mom and my dad have harder time unhaul books main while I make as challenge
So my challenges I do usually is
1) not going to read or reread it (or dnf it)
2) I think I want more readers to find it (I have my local queer space has library, or second hand bookstore)
4) have more than one edition
5) I'm not sure why I owned it
Usually my parents taken some of books (but they are not in my shelf)
I prefer graphic novel as volume
I see that you unhauled one of Alix E. Harrow's books. Did you read The Once and Future Witches by Harrow? If you did, what did you think of it? I'm tempted to pick it up, but I'm unsure. 🗑
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🗑 great video, my book buying is absolutely out of control!
Manage? 😂😅
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🚮 I do my unhauls in big burst
🗑That was an amazing unhaul - we don't even have that many books! I tend to get rid of books when I've read them - there are only a very few books I've kept - hubby is different - he keeps certain authors and will reread the books many times - we are at the moment looking for better copies of some of those because he's read them to death! I do also like to read authors in order so will sort of collect/amass their works then once I'm drawn to them I'll read a few one after the other. We buy most of our books from charity shops and give back to them afterwards. 🗑
🚮 This is the only one I could find lol
I love a good unhaul! 🗑
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Oh my god I've been watching booktube since 2014 and the PAIN seeing all the same stupid arguments getting rehashed is causing me like it made no sense the first time gang why are we still talking about this 😭😭😭
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I personally couldn't read past book 2 from Rivers of London because it's kinda sexist. The main character sees all female characters, apart from his mom (thank heavens), in sexual terms first and foremost. Women are something he can bang first then things he sees as human. It was such an interest premisse and world. I was bummed but couldn't get past that. Now that I found out about the shenanigans with the comics, I'm glad I ditched it.
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🗑Excellent unhaul.