I thought that adding 15 feet of extra shelving would more than replace the existing shelving even, perhaps, allowing space to move the books that are spilling off the end of the bookshelves, and crawling out of the corners of the rooms a place to live.
I was wrong.
Depressingly, 15 feet of shelving turns out to be almost exactly the same amount of shelving as is provided by the nasty pine shelves I’m endeavouring to replace. Still, it’s taken the load off the bit of floor I’ve been quietly worrying about.
I am now going to attempt some filing.
[Hours awake: 22]