As a labor of love, my wife decided this winter to catalog all my books and place a Dewey Decimal System label on each spine. It saves both time in looking for a book and the expense of ordering a duplicate if I can’t find what I remember having read!
Neither of us had any idea that we would catalog, label and re-shelve over 3,000 books, My time as her helper was compromised by my repeated discovery of “an old friend” that I had read years ago and whose underlined and highlighted thoughts were like recovering “acres of diamonds,” as Russell Conwell put it.
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