I can't remember where I read this concept recently, but it has really shifted how I feel about the piles of unread books around my house:
A bookshelf isn't just a place to store books you have already read, it is more like having a wine cellar. A home library is a collection of books that are waiting for the right occasion and mood to be read.
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, also he should be trained from birth to manage logistics for a mid-sized regional wholesaler”
Me: do you think he called himself T.S. Eliot so nobody would notice that T. Eliot is toilet backwards?
Librarian: stop talking