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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because my house became full of books - double-stacked shelves on every available wall. To buy more books I would have had to buy a larger house. ...
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It is your mentality not the physical books that are the problem. You are obviously are hoarder from what you are writing and the fact that you have/have had 5 e-book readers. You write like there is no other option than getting a bigger house. Alot of people on this site seem to hoard e-books, books or e-ink devices. The more cluttered your home environment is from superfluous stuff, the more cluttered your mind will be, because you have to keep a mental inventory of all that, and you have developed a strong mental attachment to those objects. Letting go liberates you emotionally, mentally, and you can find the few things you need or highly value much easier, compared to someone who thinks they need a dozen gadgets that reproduce each other's functions and a house full of books.
Most of the time you read a book once and that is it, it never gets touched again. After that you should let it go, there are lots of places you can do that. You could give/sell it to a thrift store, a library for their booksale, give it to a friend, resell it, trade it, etc. I find that in the few cases you need to lookup something in a book, you can do it often enough in Amazon's preview system or Google books.