A Dragon Hoard

This past weekend and much of the week has been spent cleaning my craft/library room. I was really good about getting a rid of extra craft supplies and lets face it, useless junk. However, when it came to my books I was a bit more picky.

I tend to hoard books. I am also very protective of them. They are my children and I worry when they are out in the world. Silly right? I wonder if anyone else does this. I feel like a dragon protecting its gold only it's books. I want to curl up on them and keep them safe. (Much like this picture)


I managed to let go of many craft and recipe books. Let's face it the digital age has made it way easy to look up recipes and craft instructions. It is faster than digging through a book shelf and scanning through the pages. I kept a few treasured gifts from family and friends. The rest will go to the used books stores to buy more books! (I have credit all over town)

The rest of my collection is loosely organized into a Valerie style cataloging system. I am a huge fan of re-written fairy tales, princess stories, and fantasy fiction so that collection takes up almost a whole bookcase.
I have a large section of Jane Austen and related tales (even the horrid spin offs). I also have gardening, cooking, art/crafts/photography, historical fiction, Christian fiction/non-fiction, and general books. Lastly, and I admit I am a bit ashamed, is my growing collection of Star trek, space novels and graphic novels. It seems like a lot but really it only takes up two large shelves and one medium sized shelf. My mini library..

As a book hoarding dragon I have to have copies of my favorite titles. I have yet to get an e-reader and am still not sold on the idea. I realize their merit but my budget will not allow for one just yet. Maybe if they would format all of my textbooks into e-books I would save the money and get one. For now I will stay curled up around my books and enjoy their paper pages.

Cheers~
VEB