A while back I wrote a post about how much I love to read. Seriously, I love the smell of a new book. Some people like the smell of grass, rain, or dirt after it rains (which I think smells like worms, even though worms don’t exactly have a scent). I like the smell of bound paper.

For Christmas I got a bookshelf, and recently I finally got around to putting it together. It didn’t take long for my nine, yes nine boxes of books to fill the five shelves. When I ran out of room I had to resort to using my cube organizer to store the overflow. And when that filled up I’ve just started laying books wherever I can.

You see, I don’t always read books straight through. I start and stop all the time. So, at any given time I have at least three books on the nightstand or next to the recliner or sofa or some place that can hold a book. At the rate I was going, my whole cat room/reading room was going to be just book shelves. I needed a solution that didn’t include not reading. I remembered a post y2kemo wrote on e-readers. That’s when I got the idea to splurge.

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