If you’ve a dedicated room lined with rich, mahogany shelves that reach high into your 30 foot ceilings, so high that they require their own dedicated ladders to traverse.

The image I generally conjure up when someone says they’ve a lot of books is closer to that of the classic hoarder though.

Or if they inherit it. My grandfather left me his collection of over 7000 books. It was thrown up the attic because I was deemed to young to read some of them. By the time I got my hands on them, they were crumbling due to bad storage and some of them were so old that if you try to fold the edge, it broke..like a biscuit. And then we had a devastating flood and lost it..I tried to dry them and saved about half the collection. A second flood ten years later took away the remaining books.

Since then..I can’t bear to throw away even a magazine subscription. I guess that makes me a hoarder.

Anyone knows how to break the book hoarding habit? It’s about time I let go of the trauma of the flood damage and water logged books.