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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.

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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.