I have a lot of friends who talk about how they go into bookstores and buy everything. How do they manage? I haven't bought a hard copy of a book in a year and a half because it's so much easier to hide what I'm reading when it's on a kindle, and I have the vague image in my head of the last time I had to pack up my books.
Funny thing is that the harrowing tower of books in my memories is still not this big.
Books are flipin' heavy. This isn't that much of a problem, except for the fact that they also fit really well in boxes. With a little bit of of spatial reasoning, you can really pack them in there. But then once you fill a box, you go to lift it, only to find that you basically just filled a box with bricks.
So you have to sacrifice efficient packing for not pulling all the muscles in your back. For some reason, this irritates me, because efficient packing is a beautiful thing. But that means that the saving grace here is that these boxes are actually only half full of books and half full of outerwear and towels. This also irks me, because think of how awesome it would be in the packing process to get to move a super light box full of linens. Especially after you've moved a super heavy box of books.
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