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Originally Posted by crich70
We've been there before. One king of France was considered wealthy because he had a large library ( some 24 Volumes) and in more recent past centuries (even with pbooks becoming cheaper due to Gutenberg's work on the printing press) a book collection was a status symbol. Just having a bookcase or five with books on it was just as impressive as having an automobile was. Never mind that often said collection wasn't read. I remember in fact hearing of someone buying a collection of books some 1 or 2 centuries old at an estate sale and finding that many of them had pages that were still uncut (they'd never been read).
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Never mind about not read, what about not books?
I could name a couple of stately homes in England where most of the library is just book spines stuck together. Previous incumbents had sold of the books to pay debts. Just think how much physical space an ebook library would take up.