# Going Minimalist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-minimalist/828006>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 18, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-minimalist/828006 "2019-01-18T22:09:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/going-minimalist/828006/21 "2019-01-26T01:44:30Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> Some people still get great personal pleasure from having a personal library, but for most of us it’s wasted space. Realistically I doubt I’ll re-read more than a handful of the books I own. But I’m paying for space to keep them and shelves to hold them and more keep coming (because I love to read).
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> So now I keep only the books that I have a personal sentimental attachment to or the ones that make for good conversation when visitors see them on the shelf. The rest, the ones I’m not reading right now but maybe I’ll (re)read someday in the future: they get donated from the library.

ebooks for the win.

mrAru and I fully understand that at some point we will be in assisted living, and with the way tech is proceding, we will [probably] end up with a tablet each, and possibly one of those PC computers that is built into the screen or a laptop because one of the ‘patient’s rights’ will probably end up with internet access in each room so we will have our music and book files on the main computing device and music and books loaded onto each tablet [we have something like 2500 cds ripped with the hard copies in our storage area and around 2000 ebook files, with another 5000 hard copy books I am slowly scanning in because they are out of publication fantasy and sf from the 30s through the 80s] While I find the whole Apple I-thefuck ‘you don’t own the music/book/movie you just paid for, you get access to it’ … I forsee that the vast majority of people will simply have their books, movies and music as e-files rather than hard copy.

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