{"id":5359,"date":"2009-07-20T00:04:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T00:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2009\/07\/are-you-a-book-pack-rat.html"},"modified":"2009-07-20T00:04:33","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T00:04:33","slug":"are-you-a-book-pack-rat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2009\/07\/are-you-a-book-pack-rat.html","title":{"rendered":"Are you a Book Pack Rat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have trouble getting rid of books? Are they accumulating like our national debt? (Sorry for the political suggestiveness.) <\/p>\n<p>Now the real questions: How many do you really need? How many of those will you need in 5 or 10 years? What criteria do you use for keeping or ridding your library of books?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><b>I&#8217;d love to hear your ideas about how you choose what books to shelve and what books to purge.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Jon Boyd&#8217;s suggestion:<\/p>\n<p> <object height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5482918&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5482918&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\"><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/5482918\">Pruning the Leaves<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/boyd\">Jon Boyd<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have trouble getting rid of books? 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