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Originally Posted by bgalbrecht
I'm not sure if you're kidding, but the hoarding discussed here is a form of compulsive hoarding. Fortunately for those who compulsively hoard ebooks, the clutter is digital and not physical, but unless one is only collecting free ebooks, there is still a cost involved in buying far more books than one could ever read.
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Having a large number of books isn't hoarding. A person who has a large number of full bookshelves isn't a hoarder, the book hoarder will have books piled everywhere, floor to ceiling. It often is hard even to get through the house, they can't get rid of anything. The person with a large number of e-books is much more like the person with a large number of orderly but full bookshelves. It's really not hoarding until keeping them all begins to interfere with your life. A true book hoarder's life is often impacted to the point where there isn't even anywhere to sit down, even if someone wanted to enter the house.