An experiment to reset a bookshelf that was âstagnatingâ in a less than functional state.
- in advance
- Prepare a sufficient amount of cardboard.
- I bought a box for Minicraftâs books because of the hassle I had to go through.
- Prepare a sufficient amount of cardboard.
- Day 1
- Pack all books on the bookshelf into cardboard boxes.
- At this point, anything that is clearly unnecessary is immediately moved to the discard zone
- Put more and more in the box without taking the time to worry about it.
- Looking at the empty shelves
- Consider where the shelves should originally be and whether they are needed.
- in my case
- historical background
- Initially there was a smaller size shelf A
- Stacked on top of each other with items of a size that wonât fit.
- Buying a bookcase that could properly put away the smaller books caused the smaller books to move there, but A remained in existence because of the pile of stuff on top of it.
- Miscellaneous things went into the subtle empty space.
- So I decided that the problem was that there were no appropriate shelves for large-sized items in the first place.
- Discard the smaller shelves and install shelves that can accommodate larger items in that space.
- historical background
- in my case
- Pack all books on the bookshelf into cardboard boxes.
- 2nd day
- Filter the books out of the box, lining them up on the floor.
- Look at the front cover of every book at least once, when normally only the spine is visible.
- Same concept as KJ method, make it easy to grasp the whole picture by making a list.
- Well, I canât lay them all out at once.
- Look at the front cover of every book at least once, when normally only the spine is visible.
- Same concept as KJ method, make it easy to grasp the whole picture by making a list.
- Classification.
- what to throw away
- What to put back on the bookshelf
- Items that you plan to use in the immediate future
- Items to be cut and scanned
- Something I hadnât planned to do but wanted to read again.
- What to sell at the Book-Off
- What to put back in the box
- Leaving it in the box means that it will be sent to Minicruz, i.e., it will cost 2,400 yen per box per year.
- Can it be thrown away, scanned, or sold? Think about it.
- reference
- Wifeâs book quantity management system
- Discard books to keep the quantity of books constant.
- Iâll buy more if I think I need it.
- The book you buy again becomes information that you like it enough to buy it twice.
- I resisted this system under the pretext that âNo, not all books can be bought again if you give them away.
- But I never actually checked the percentage of such books, so it was just a pretext
- Typically, itâs an academic journalâŠ
- There is no need to save the paper since some journals are digitized in the first place.
- Anything not digitized can be cut and scanned.
- The issue to be resolved is the psychological hurdle to discarding
- Caused by fear that âif you throw it away, youâll never get it back.â
- So correct âlet goâ to âpack it in a box and do it somewhere other than homeâ instead of âthrow it awayâ.
- If I thought I needed it, I could take it back.
- And then the flag goes up saying, âItâs something I was willing to pay the cost to get back.
- After a year without getting it back, you ask, âI didnât think I needed it for a year, but do I pay $2,400 to keep it for another year?â The question arises
- Wifeâs book quantity management system
- Filter the books out of the box, lining them up on the floor.
- 3rd day
- Four boxes of cardboard have been processed, and about 1.7 boxes of books going to the minicrals.
- Talked with my wife about what we could put in the 0.3 more space.
- Reminds me of the kind of catalogs that were tucked away in the pantry, not on the bookshelf.
- Because of the large size of the plates, they could not fit on the bookshelf and were put away.
- Very good for this system as it is difficult to re-purchase if you throw it away.
- It doesnât all fit, so we picked up some of it and put it in the miniclass box.
- The bookshelves are very clear.
- I bought a large shelf so I can store catalogs.
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