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Is it a growing book debt of shame or am I just in massive book credit 
@errantscience a personal library is no fun if you've read everything in it
@errantscience it’s called an anti-librairy. To be enjoyed! Umberto Eco had a big one.
Came here too say this too 
And unread books are more important than the read ones.
As they contain the stuff you don't know
https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
Lend more? Actively recommend and offer. Put a Walz mini-library in your home.
@errantscience That is significantly less of a margin than mine congratulations
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Actual #books are a terrific investment. You can read them anytime, even if there's a power outage, your battery is dead, you're out of range, or something's gone wrong with the internet. In addition, if you can't read it all in one sitting, all you need is a little scrap of paper to keep track of where you left off.
I'm surprised to not see someone yet mention that it's also an investment in the writers of things cared about. Maybe eventually the books will be read, or passed to others who will read them, but maybe it will just sustain a writer enough that the people who are reading them will still get books.
Too often we think of investment as something you do to make a profit. But there is another kind of investment, the kind of thing we do with our kids, where you just put money into how you want the world to be. Too often we call it a good investment if you pour money into things that are hurtful to the planet, like fossil fuels, to maximize return. And we laugh at people who invested in wind or solar if it didn't work out for their lack of wise investment. Seriously.
Do we see how ridiculous it is to have a society structured like that? We should worry less about breaking even and more about making sure the world is kind and headed in the right direction. And if that leaves some of us with less money to retire on, let's invest in fixing that. But not by killing the planet.
We get tricked by people who show that fixing one problem leads to the visibility of need to fix another. But that doesn't mean it was the wrong path.
Books are part of that.
And maybe physical books cut down trees. But let's worry about junk mail and other much more gross wastages before we worry about the cost of physical books. I'm not sure the accumulation of physical books is what's killing us. But we can go in order on that. An educated, well-read society will not hurt us.
@errantscience, and that debt area can be filled in by something call a library
@errantscience@mas.to growing balance. you're in surpluss!
@errantscience No, you just have a well-stocked book wine cellar.
@errantscience That's why I don't buy physical copies until I read them digitally :P
@errantscience @JugglingWithEggs I believe its called tsundoku - I’ve got it too.
@errantscience just think of them like a wine cellar – they're not hanging over your head, they're waiting for the right moment!
@errantscience my mom’s button collection included “I don’t need speed reading, I need speed bookshelf-building!”
This but red line is "books I told myself I will read"
@errantscience I feel personally attacked... 
@errantscience This is incorrect. It is NEVER shameful to have more books than you'll ever read... Behold, Umberto Eco's library:
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My TBR is massive.
@errantscience I feel seen.