Books originally shelved with our recordings

Titles from the home library

Domestic science, home economics, cooking, woodworking, metalworking, needlework, homesteading, farming, pet care, gardening, nutrition, handicrafts, housekeeping

Poorly researched, weak conclusion, rambling, or any of the other reasons a reader may regret investing the time in a work

Books read or purchased away from home

Listened to most already through public libraries, subscription libraries, Librivox, or own physical copy. Home library does contain physical audio media or print book of most of these titles.

Includes: favorites to read again, others to read again to refresh, unfinished reading, and books where only selections were read

Recently donated to friends or libraries, removed from home library. Hundreds of older titles I cannot recall were donated after friends selected titles they desired at our library fundraiser high tea parties at my home.

Items in database that are empty or junk to suggest for deletion. In some cases, there are EDITIONS that are ready to delete, not the whole work.

The ship is sinking. You have only time to collect about 25 books into a small trunk to sustain you. Which books do you pack? Why those books?

Human origins, evolution, genetics, anthropology

Free audiobook from firesidephilosophers productions, THE FUTURE COULD BE BRILLIANT (2019). Some of the books referred to in this "Scottish perspective on why much of the world seems crazy… and what to do about it." Narrated by Douglas Canning and Jane Garven.
- https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/the-future-could-be-brilliant-2291001
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-could-be-brilliant/id1488453668
- https://thefuturecouldbebrilliant.podbean.com/