@patchworkbunny it's not about whether you have 700 unread books. It's whether the books you're looking at call your name. If they call your name, you can't leave them on a shelf all forlorn: you have to buy them and take them home.
@patchworkbunny They never shut up. But they can be charming and delightful and wonderful and scary and the more books one owns the better insulated one is.