Too Many Books? Mendel Uminer faced a crisis when his landlord objected to the 10,000 volumes in his New York studio apt

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5. My wife and I were saved by ebooks.

When my wife and I married we each had hundreds of books. Now we're into the thousands of paper books. It would be much, much worse without ebooks. Hoarded ebooks don't take up any space.

My relationship to books has changed a lot. I think I'm a pretty good judge now of what books I'll never read or reference again and I don't feel bad about giving those books away even if they end up in the "free" bins only to be thrown away when nobody takes them. I'll even throw away books I wouldn't want anyone else to suffer. There are some authors I was once intrigued by whose work did not age well.

A great hoard of ebooks can be found at Project Gutenberg.

https://gutenberg.org/