Books are hard for us to minimalize. We adore both the story and the presentation of the novels.

We have a decent number of 'classics' that Doug bought mail-order. He kept that subscription for a couple years. We kept the mail-order scifi 'new classics' book subscription for several more years. They were written by popular (and up and coming) authors at about the time they were published.

There are at least 2 bookshelves, maybe more (they're kind of spread out) full of these leather-bound novels. Between us there are only a few that we haven't read and we've found some authors there that we might have not easily have found otherwise.

We generally don't buy books anymore unless they are good enough to read again (and then we try to get good quality hardbacks when available) but we won't be giving up these ones which we both like the story but love the book. As they're good quality maybe we'll call them our 'old age fund'. They're worth a good price if you try to buy them online. 😉

There was a time when I could have taken up minimalism but living where we do we have too much impetus and room to store stuff.