Just bought a bunch of old chess books. . .

So I've decided to take up chess more seriously. I went a little crazy though and just ordered a ton of used books off amazon. The reason I'm posting the list is because I'm not sure what I should read first. I was hoping someone on these forums could help me out a little. Here's what I got:

The Art of Chess Combination - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

How Not To Play Chess - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

How To Play the Chess Openings - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

How To Play Chess Endings - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

The Middle Game In Chess - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Lasker's Manual of Chess

The Game of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess Fundamentals - Jose R. Capablanca

Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur - Max Euwe and Walter Meiden

Amazingly amazon was doing some kind of free super saver shipping thing on all but one of those books so ended up getting all of these, shipping included, for around 35 bucks.

Here's the order I was thinking about using:

Either How Not To Play Chess, Lasker's Manual, Tarrasch, or the Capablanca first (don't know which one though), simultaneously with Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur and The Art of Chess Combination (which I assume is tactics and hopefully not too advanced). After that I'll work through the rest of the Eugene Znosko-Borovsky books. Is there a problem with that order?

Also, does anyone have any other recommendations? I figured I wasn't ready for My System yet.

By the way, I realize all these books are in descriptive notation. They were also really cheap and I don't think descriptive notation is as bothersome as most people make it out to be.

The books you listed are not quite a good set for a starting-out-serious-chess player.

The only thing I'd keep on my reading list is Chess Master vs. Chess Am, Lasker's manual and Capa's Chess Fundamentals book. 

Even still ... there are so many better books to start out with. Google for Dan Heisman's recommended reading list for various levels of players.

Don't get me wrong ...  Your list of books are not terrible, but I fear they will not give you enough bang for your buck compared to the other more  "recommended" titles by stronger players.

older books are difficult because they aren't written in algaibraic notation which is all you will see and here when playing chess.

Thanks for the replies so far.

An update:

as many of you probably know, buying chess books can become addicting. I just sold back a bunch of school textbooks from last semester and bought even more chess books with the money. Now I have to stop buying books and start reading them though. Here's the complete list of what I have now:

Endgame:

The Art Of Checkmate - Renaud and Kahn

How To Play Chess Endings - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Capablanca's Best Endings - Chernev

Middle Game:

Bronstein's Zurich, 1953

The Middle Game In Chess - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Simple Chess - Michael Stean

Opening:

Chess From Morphy to Botwinnik - Imre Konig (the progression of openings throughout the history of chess)

How To Play the Chess Openings - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

General Game Collections:

Masters Of The Chessboard - Reti

I Play Against Pieces - Svetozar Gligoric (perhaps a strange pick but something about this book was calling me)

Morphy's Games Of Chess - Sergeant

Beginner Annotated Games:

Logical Chess: Move By Move - Chernev

Chess Master vs. Chess Amateur - Max Euwe and Walter Meiden

Tactics:

Winning Chess: How To See Three Moves Ahead - Chernev and Reinfeld (hope this is as good as everyone says it is. . .)

The Art of Chess Combination - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

General:

How Not To Play Chess - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky

Lasker's Manual of Chess

The Game of Chess - Siegbert Tarrasch

Chess Fundamentals - Jose R. Capablanca

Pawn Power In Chess - Kmoch

So yeah, I need to stop buying books. By the way, my local library has a few tactics workbooks (Chess Tactics for Champions by Polgar for example) so I'll have enough tactics problems to work through with those and online stuff.

I kind of just randomly picked these out so, as Shivsky pointed out, I don't know if this is really the best or most efficient way to start studying chess more seriously, but I'm not really in a rush to get good and I think these books will be a lot of fun to read through.