Goodbye Books.
Goodbye Library.
I will always miss you.

When I read through (or watch) Posts that Chip, David, Bill, or Marty - et all Post with Science, History, Math, Biology, Physics, the Brain...or a host of other subjects; I am a little saddened.

Why?

Because when I lost my home (my fault...don't make stupid financial decisions late in life. LOL) I had to give away my Library. It took four pick up loads to take them all away. Funnily enough, not many people wanted them.

I was able to donate 647 Non Fiction books (in the pictures above) to two libraries. And I got three local High Schools to take sixty three of my Hard Science books that were less than two years old.

Two small Bookstores took most of my paperback and Hardcover Science Fiction books (a bit over a thousand or so) and my entire collection of Louis L'Amour Westerns, a guy actually bought from me for $2 a book...so that brought in a couple hundred needed dollars. LOL

Sadly, I had to put tables up with hundreds of books on them, because the Libraries, Schools, or Bookstores wouldn't take them. I just put up a "Free to a Good Home" cardboard sign and left them all in the front yard before we moved out.

I am glad to say, that by the end of the day...every single book, two tables and twenty boxes full, gone to some lovely new home.

I miss my books. Five years without a library. And then I think about those folks out in California who's homes burnt to the ground with every picture, gift, important paper, book and memory - gone.

At least I had a choice, and it was only my books that I lost, but someone else got to read.

And I am grateful.