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Next, separate out your paper books - ones you've read vs. ones you have not read. Among those you have read, give away or sell those that are not beloved. You'll never reread the others and you'll save your family a lot of anger having to do this after you are gone.
Among those you have not read - separate out those that don't really appeal to you now. Make a plan to read ONE of those each month. Pretty soon you will find out that you don't want to waste your time on things that no longer appeal to you and it will help you pitch them so that you can focus on books you do enjoy now.
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This idea has potential; one way to 'downsize the paper books'. With the e-reader, a simple factory reset takes care of 'electronic downsizing'. 
I did manage to donate 2 bags of books to Value Village and loan a couple to my colleague at work. And to convince myself I won't be arbitrarily buying books I want to read, I put Sapiens on hold at my library.
There are 120 e-copies with 660 people ahead of me in Hold queue for it, so I just join the queue. By end of this year I may get my turn
. The test is to see if I'll hold out or get impatient and run to purchase it. I did that with a book last month -the hold queue was too long so I went and buy the book instead.
As for the e-readers, I kept saying, they are replacements should the one I'm using go kaput. I find it a teensy bit hard to let go of any of them. Yet I think I might part with one if I know someone really needs it.