Read all the books I've bought but haven't read yet.

This is a fun read, as it’s missing chunks of text on the first few pages since a previous foster dog ate on it (three-legged Lily, hit by a car and I got to change her bandages twice daily through the stench of decay but now she lives with fabulously wonderful Jim and Kumar and has found permanent love and joy and deer to chase).
Sadly, since it’s in horrid shape, I can only throw it away once I’ve done reading it. No chance to sell it on ebay unless there’s a shortage of “dog-eaten books” out there.

I’ve listed three books that I’ve read on half.com (and if they don’t sell in a week, they’re going to the free shelf at cafe caffeine). Listed to sell: The Light Ages, Silverlock, and Sextopia. To read: The Wellness Book (gift for husband), Politics of Women’s Biology (left by roommate), and In Memoriam to Identity (bought at the local anarchist bookstore, but it’s Kathy Acker and she’s not exactly airport literature).

As much as I love the cheap insulation that books offer (if they’re cheap books – mine aren’t) when bookshelves line the walls, after we downsized into a house that’s an office, a bedroom, and a bathroom smaller, there’s no room for our collection of books from our childhood, gift books, and all those books I bought to help research my thesis (why?). Once they’re read, they’ll either go into the Keep, Half.com, or recycle pile. Who needs College-level calculus that hasn’t been opened in … oh, fifteen years?