TOO MANY BOOKS. No Such Thing, of Course . . .

The books continue piling up in this house. I have had to add another shelf in the study, and should probably consider adding a couple more, but for now it's at the limit. Below, shelves in the closet. I still have a mess of things to clean up on the bottom shelf.

Next the shelves above my work computer.
 

Then on the far wall, next to my personal computer.

This is where the new (third) shelf is.

Part of the reason for all of this is that I have books in my closet upstairs I want to move down here. I've been only partly successful with that, and part of it came with sorting through my Peanuts paperbacks and giving duplicates to my son, who also has a physical media hoarding problem, so all I'm really doing there is enabling.

Why am I moving the books out of the closet? Well, because we took our CD shelves down and now I need a place to put the CDs. I wanted to put them in the study, but there's just no room here (particularly now that I've added more bookshelves) so they're going to go in the closet where the recently-removed books were. At least temporarily until I can figure out how to empty and get rid of a filing cabinet in the study so I can put the CD shelves on the wall where it stands. It's all very complicated.

The re-shelving has resulted in some relocation of wall art (mostly collections of BSA patches and other similar items). I'm having to get inventive:

It's not my proudest moment, but the patches must be displayed: They're 50th anniversary patches of the scout camp I went to as a kid and where my family works all summer.

And oh yeah, more books. Part of that shelf is occupied by toner cartridges for a laser printer. They'll be finding a new home soon, to make way for yet more books that are in my closet. Maybe they can go in said closet, just to make a point.