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Step by Step Guide to Packing Books - In Pictures

By Diane Schmidt, About.com

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Take Inventory

Books on a Shelf

Choose which books to pack

If you're moving long distance and are being charged by weight, make sure you carefully go through your books and determine what you really want to keep and pay to move. Books are heavy. Even paperbacks can add up to a lot of money. And if you're like me, you tend to accumulate a lot over a short time, so find a good home for them and know that someone else will be getting just as much joy from reading them as you did.

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