RE: Becoming minimalist: when having fewer possessions means living a better life
Living as a minimalist sounds like a dream to someone who has lived with hoarders. Having just gone through a move of unimaginable proportions because of that, the one item we agreed would move in large quantity was our vast book collection.
Collecting, reading and saving books goes beyond the text that can be scanned into a file and read from an electronic tablet. Holding an aged book that was written over a hundred years ago, printed and bound in fine leather or simple cloth, illustrated with sketches protected beneath tissue covers, and which has been passed through unknown numbers of hands in 100+ years, has a feel and smell that digitized versons will never be able to have.
Although there are days I could easily give up my extra computers, phones, other antiques and even shoes..,there's a few hundred books I still have to read that will never be available online.
