I am near 100% on lending and giving my books away. Of all the things I have I don't horde books. I would rather pick up another used copy every couple years if I want to re-read a book.
Of course I cannot remember the last time I bought non-reference book at retail and new. I can say it has been at minimum 20-years since my last new non-reference book purchase. Maybe that makes it easier for me to give them away or lend them? Then again growing my friends and I always shared books this way. I think at any given time I have at most a couple dozen novels lying around the house and even that bothers me since they are just one more thing needing dusting. Of course, over the past decade or so, with each new year ebooks have increasingly reduced that number.
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