Now this is a thread I understand, after 3+ years at sea when everything you could take with you had to fit in 2, at most , cases or bags as you had to carry them down gangways or to distant jetty ends for a taxi, to get to even more distant railway stations to get home or join the ship, I vowed I would NEVER reduce my book collection or living gear to that level again,. If anything happens to stuff, then so be it but I am very resistant to being "portable" and "packable in a hurry" ever again, BTW that screeching sound is my SO tearing her hair out...