A trip to Myrorna, with 14 boxes of books. Then another trip to Science fiction antikvariatet with 3 more.

That’s the equivalent of about 850 pocket books. (I know this because the SF bookshop counted the contents of the boxes I gave to them, and gave me a gift card in return.) Assuming each cone cost about 80 kr, that would be 68 000 kr worth of books.

In a way that sounds like a terrible waste. Those books face a very uncertain future, and I’m guessing that a good chunk of what we gave to Myrorna will later end up being thrown away. The man at the SF bookshop told me that there’s a guy at Myrorna whose only job is to throw away books. The mere thought is depressing.

But each of those books has been worth the money at some point, and we’ve enjoyed reading them. So they have absolutely been worth the money. This is no more a waste than having paid for cinema tickets, which, after all, we also use once and then throw away.