Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, depending on where you are on the planet.

This is Bill Nye and this is ill-advised by Bill Nye, which alliterates and ascents at the same time,

which is rare in a podcast title.

This is a podcast for people who don't get out much and can't handle it when they do.

If you're relaxed at dinner parties and good in bed, there's nothing for you here.

We've had questions from every corner, not that the planet has corners, but every corner of the planet.

And we're excited about that.

So, wherever you are on the planet does not disqualify you. Please, if we can help,

we almost certainly can't, but we can try. Let's have a listen. I will try really hard not to make

things worse. Hi, Bill. Leslie here from Bristol. Enjoying the advice. I have a question, a problem. With your propensity for books

and fiction in particular, I was wondering how you store your books. Now we're through this

podcast of your bent for less rather than more in a room. What's your advice for someone

like me now drowning in books?

Leslie, as you might imagine, I don't store books.

I don't keep them.

I used to think that I would, and I used to treat them as if they were kind of sacred objects.

I still have maximum respect for them, and I, as you may know, I spend half my life reading, but I don't hang on to them. The only books I retain are those that have sentimental

value, or on the few occasions when people have given me valuable books. I have two or three books,

which are worth quite a lot of

money. And if they're signed either by the author or by someone that I admire or love, I suppose at

one point in my life I did think I was going to live when I grew up. I was going to live in a book-lined

room. But in fact, when I came to the point where I had a room, I didn't want it to be book-lined

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