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Yes, I am hoarding books. I'm 63, and, even though, as someone mentioned, I am self-employed and cannot retire as long as I can stand and state my name (don't ask my profession), I don't want to wind up in a home somewhere without good books to read. I read literary fiction (Booker Prize winners and such), and some biography, history and science writing. If I live to be 100, I'll never be able to read all the ebooks I have. Never-the-less, when I read a good review in the Guardian or New York Review, I often "buy" the book -- which is easy to do with ebooks, even at 11pm. Here's the thing, though. I get excited about what's new and innovative in writing, and tend not to look back at unread books that I acquired (ah, there's a good word for it) a year or more ago. In other words, I can't keep up with my acquisitions. But, so what? At least they aren't gathering dust or degrading (as my old Penguin paperbacks did -- crumbling and yellowing into unreadability). My heirs can clean house by pressing "delete".
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