[bgalbrecht]

I don't think 4-6 thousand books is all that much. At one point I had about that many science fiction and fantasy paperbacks and several thousand magazines. My ebook collection, admittedly with a large number of freebies is could be over 60 thousand if I included all of the public domain books I have. Book hoarding with ebooks is much less messy.

I once had a meeting at someone's house where the dining room was filled floor to ceiling with bookshelves filled with hardcovers, and I told her I had a question about her books, (actually about the bookshelves) and she replied "No I have not read them all." before I could even ask my question. I laughed because I knew from personal experience that was rather unlikely for her to have read even a majority of them, and then got into a discussion about the bookshelves.