#UmbertoEco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about #homelibraries:
“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small
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Lately I’ve been missing making videos so I did a quick tour of my upgraded library. It was fun. #asmr #homelibraries #iphonevideo
(3) I've been putting my library in some order. I have something like 5000 books in my house and during the pandemic about 2000 of them have spread to cover just about every available surface : stalagmites of books in my reading cave.
I don't have a system. Because I have a spatial memory, it doesn't matter what order my books are in as long as none of them moves six inches to the right.
The object is to get them back on shelves. This could be traumatic.
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