"Put down that wrench!"

we're finally slowly merging the fiction collections and deduplicating (surprisingly little overlap). there are bookshelves I've made from the wall outside the bedroom down through every empty wall and room in the house to the kitchen, along with Ivar and Billy in the spare room and kitchen. There are several unread bookcases, cookery in the kitchen and 'big books' in the halls, with mixed reference, comics, BD and other in the spare room. Separate hardback and trade bookcases in the front room. paperbacks run alphabetically down the house until we start again at A for my books - all alphabetical; after the Great Radiator Incident Simon's books are only alphabetical up to L. I have an Excel spreadsheet, sadly out of date, he has LibraryThing and neither of us have a full catalogue so we buy far too many duplicates... I keep nearly everything but discard any book I don't like or don't ever want to re-read (one in 30 or more). Simon can explain what he keeps...