Following yesterday's post, I have now selected two feet of Thackeray, Elliot, Dostoevsky and Turgenev for culling, a culling which leaves me no Thackeray, some Eliot, a little Dostoevsky and most of the Turgenev. First thought was that out of sight, they will be out of mind and never read again. Second thought was that the Dostoevsky had been in sight for years and had been rarely, if ever, looked at. Third thought was to buy the collected works of Conrad from Amazon for the princely sum of £1.92 to assuage guilt, a purchase which probably increases the chance that Conrad will get looked at. Increases from non zero I might add.
Collected works somewhat marred by the inclusion of illustrations which the kindle is not very good at; it should stick to the text which it is good at. But there is a table of contents, without which, finding the book which one wanted would be tiresome.
Next step is to divide the two feet into two piles: one pile which goes for waste paper and the other pile which Oxfam might glance at.
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