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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
If you were a furniture maker would you reduce your product line of bookshelves?
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Not for a while, not yet. I'm actually looking to buy a new bookshelf to handle some of my overflow that I don't want to relegate to the cardboard boxes in the closets. It won't be new though.
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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
And more importantly in a bookshelf free future how are people going to brag about their erudition?
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Dinner parties? 
That's a good question. I admit to 'showing off' my books, at least somewhat. Not necessarily because of content or literary value, but more so because many of them are high-quality collector items, some of [almost] museum quality.
The shelves in my home office however do not host collectables, or even decorative works; they're full of technical and reference manuals, periodicals, and other works I use[d] mostly in the course of my trade. I could probably get rid of them altogether now as most everything they contain can more readily and reliable be pulled from the internet.
But I won't. Sentimental value.