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25 years ago I used to buy those 500-700 page "bibles", "Windows API Bible", etc.
20 years ago I travelled a lot and bought a trunkful from library book sales.
10 years ago I went ereader and never looked back.
I still have the Chilton's manual for my truck though.
I used to have the "Times Atlas of the World", and it still makes me drool, but Google Earth is more practical.
I'm one of those people who don't consider bookshelves to be esthetic.
If I were rich and living a few decades ago, I would have a nice basement with lots of books in Stor-Reel (those bookshelves on train tracks so that there is only four feet of slack in the entire set of bookshelves).
Yeah, I've been to Trinity Library and it strikes me as such a shame because 99.9% of the volumes never get read.
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