I used to be, for many years, but about 10 years ago my house was getting full and I just decided "what's the point?". These days I have one "wall" of my very favourite books (eg I'll never get rid of my 36 volume "Complete Works of Dickens") and that's it. I ration myself to that fixed space - if I buy a new book and I want to keep it, something else goes. The very few books that I genuinely do want to keep permanently I try to buy in good-quality hardbacks.
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