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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Sometimes, I have a feeling that there are too many books, too many music albums, and too many movies. 50 years ago, people had... say... 100 records, and 200 books. Every one of them was special. If you had a very big collection, you may have had 250 records and 500 books, but it would still be manageable. You could *know* each and every item in the collection to the extend of knowing what track was on which album and being able to tell from what book (and chapter) a quote came.
Nowadays, I've got a collection of over 700 albums (ripped to FLAC) and as many if not more ebooks, free ones as well as bought ones. Even if reading one book a day and listening to one album a day (some of which have 10+ CD's in them) it would take me over 2 years to read and hear everything *once*. To be honest, they're not really special anymore, apart from some very few. (Edit: I left out my 250 DVD movies.)
Apart from very few, I wouldn't be able to tell you from which CD a track came, and in which book a quote would be.
I'm not talking about even bigger collections. Compared to some collections I know other people have, these are just... uh... mediocre in size. One of my neighbors has over 2500 albums on CD, and over 2000 movies, but he doesn't read books so has none.
Most of the time, all of that stuff just sits there.
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And sometimes it's all in your point of view as to what is big and small. I remember reading how one king of France had a big library (back during the days before Gutenberg). He had 24 books in his library at the time. From our viewpoint that's a meager amount of books, but for his time that was a big library.