Does size matter?

[pbray]

When I was packing for last week's vacation, picking clothes was the easy part. Picking which books to bring involved a considerable dilemma.

The next book in my TBR stack was THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS' NEST. If I'd been taking a car vacation I would have brought it, but I couldn't quite convince myself to bring it on a plane trip. My carry-on was heavy enough, and it didn't make sense to pack this book in my suitcase and then start reading a mass market paperback on the plane.

If we'd gone near a bookstore in Florida I would likely have given in and bought a second copy of it, knowing I could always pawn a copy off on a friend, but turned out there was no reading time on this trip other than the plane flights, so in the end it probably worked out for the best.

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Comments

[larryhammer]

When we're traveling, we're often backpacking it, so weight is even more important than car trips -- I limit myself to two, or sometimes three, paperbacks long enough to last me. For car trips, if it's an active vacation (including hiking/backpacking/whatnot), I operate on similar principles, but if it's more relaxed, knowing there's more reading time and space is less of a premium, I'll sometimes take a couple large trade pb/hardcovers.

---L.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

But are you ever tempted to buy books as souvenirs? That's usually where I go wrong, even if I've started out with a conservative supply.

[larryhammer]

Er, yeah. Especially when overseas. We actually didn't buy any, this last trip.

---L.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I once came back from Ireland with a backpack so full of books, I could barely stagger thru customs :-)