Media Mail

August 16, 2010

My wife and I are bookish people, even if these days I am more likely to be reading blogs on my iPhone than anything in print. Even after a fairly massive purge of our shelves, spurred by our big move, we have an immense collection of books. We probably threw out (donated to Goodwill, that is) more books than most people, even avid readers, have in the first place.

How many books do we have? I’m not sure, but they fill 81 boxes weighing 1,707 pounds. Actually, though, that’s not even all of them–just the ones we sent by USPS media mail. The movers took several more boxes including those with some of the biggest, heaviest books of all. Because that’s what happens when a bookish person with a PhD in architectural history and a bookish person with a law degree move across the country. Not to mention our three-year-old’s collection, which is nothing to sneeze at either.

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