Maybe both. I love having digital books available, and being able to carry them around compactly to read wherever I am. But I want hard copies of my favorites. It’s just natural for people to want to be able to hold their treasures in their hands.
My husband especially loves how nice old books look, feel, smell, the texture of the pages as you turn them...
We seriously need to divest ourselves of about half of our library; that’s going to be a hard row to hoe.
“We seriously need to divest ourselves of about half of our library; that’s going to be a hard row to hoe.”
Ouch, that’ll be like giving up old friends. When we moved, I took every single book with me. I just couldn’t give them up. Now we are in a much smaller house, and I have no clue where I’m even going to put up the bookcases. But they will go somewhere, because they were crammed full of books. I have to have some way of finding my treasures :-) I think they’ll end up in the basement. Oh well, I’ll just create a cute little library room down there.
We seriously need to divest ourselves of about half of our library; that’s going to be a hard row to hoe.
I was just thinking about it today. I’m good. I have a big bookcase full still and I am fine. I regret nothing; I have not “missed” any of the books I gave away. I held each book in my hands and thought, do I treasure this? I made the right decisions.
OK foodies I need some help here. I grew some beautiful red Swiss chard this summer. I harvested some yesterday and used it in a risotto. I sautéed the chopped up stems and just added the leaves straight into the risotto. It was a lovely shade of pink. A nice shade for a dress, but it was totally unappetizing.
Does anyone know how I tone down the red color coming out of the chard so it doesn’t discolor every dish I put it in?