Comments on: lean book-buying http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:04:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » n’gai, publicity, older games http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-103495 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » n’gai, publicity, older games Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:25:54 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-103495 [...] of bad inventory management more than anything else; I haven’t felt a desire to do so since I fixed that.) Maybe I should try the same with games? Play on a four-game cycle: new, old but new to me, new, [...] [...] of bad inventory management more than anything else; I haven’t felt a desire to do so since I fixed that.) Maybe I should try the same with games? Play on a four-game cycle: new, old but new to me, new, [...]

]]> By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » finished book queue; rorty http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-47620 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » finished book queue; rorty Fri, 15 Jun 2007 05:03:48 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-47620 [...] Looking back, I had my lean book-buying revelation more than a year ago. As I said at the time, “right now, I have … lots of books to read before I can start buying again”, and while I have hardly sworn off from buying books since then, I have made an effort to read down my stack of unread books. [...] [...] Looking back, I had my lean book-buying revelation more than a year ago. As I said at the time, “right now, I have … lots of books to read before I can start buying again”, and while I have hardly sworn off from buying books since then, I have made an effort to read down my stack of unread books. [...]

]]> By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » toc vs. jit http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-6108 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » toc vs. jit Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:58:50 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-6108 [...] This works great if all steps take the same time, but sometimes different steps take diferent times. In those situations, you can add buckets as necessary. Or, I suppose, remove buckets - for example, when buying books, Amazon normally ships books to me a little faster than I want to buy them, so while I normally use one bucket, I don’t always worry about keeping the bucket full. [...] [...] This works great if all steps take the same time, but sometimes different steps take diferent times. In those situations, you can add buckets as necessary. Or, I suppose, remove buckets - for example, when buying books, Amazon normally ships books to me a little faster than I want to buy them, so while I normally use one bucket, I don’t always worry about keeping the bucket full. [...]

]]> By: malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » amazon prime http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-5250 malvasia bianca » Blog Archive » amazon prime Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:15:15 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-5250 [...] A month and a half ago, I was toying with the idea that maybe signing up for Amazon prime would actually save me money. I still don’t really believe that, but the general idea of not buying books until right before I’m going to actually read them seems sound to me. I’m going on a trip soon, and will want a car adapter for my iPod; that seemed as good an excuse as any to sign up for the service. It comes free for the first three months; we’ll see how I like it. [...] [...] A month and a half ago, I was toying with the idea that maybe signing up for Amazon prime would actually save me money. I still don’t really believe that, but the general idea of not buying books until right before I’m going to actually read them seems sound to me. I’m going on a trip soon, and will want a car adapter for my iPod; that seemed as good an excuse as any to sign up for the service. It comes free for the first three months; we’ll see how I like it. [...]

]]> By: david carlton http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-4526 david carlton Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:45:26 +0000 http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/04/lean-book-buying/#comment-4526 I made a math error above - the house cost about 300 dollars a square foot, not 30. I'm still not sure exactly how many square feet to assign to a bookshelf, but it looks like the costs of housing a book are comparable to the costs of buying that book. That certainly changes the calculations, and suggests that I should be more aggressive about not buying books and about giving away books that I don't plan to reread. Of course, it's not like our mortgage will go down if I stop buying books. But it would be unfortunate if the presence of books made us feel that the house was too small. I made a math error above - the house cost about 300 dollars a square foot, not 30. I’m still not sure exactly how many square feet to assign to a bookshelf, but it looks like the costs of housing a book are comparable to the costs of buying that book. That certainly changes the calculations, and suggests that I should be more aggressive about not buying books and about giving away books that I don’t plan to reread.

Of course, it’s not like our mortgage will go down if I stop buying books. But it would be unfortunate if the presence of books made us feel that the house was too small.

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