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I still own nearly every book I've bought or been given, but most of them are now in boxes because we just don't have room for enough shelves in our present house. I'd pass on most of my paperbacks and manga if I could get them all in non-DRM ebooks. Many of them aren't available anywhere, even on the darknet. I don't have time to scan them all. I wish I could be in a club where it was ok to swap scans with others who owned the same book in paper. (I guess I'd still have to keep the paper versions in storage somewhere if I did that, but at least I'd have access to the content more easily than I do now!)
I had a difficult time giving away the books in the only major purge I've ever done, just before we moved to this house. Most of what I gave away were books I'd been given by someone else purging their library that I'd never gotten around to reading and wasn't really interested in trying to read anymore. The library wouldn't take them. We ended up giving them to a charity store.
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