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Originally Posted by Ea
As a child, I always used to wonder where my friends' families kept their books. There were usually only a shelf or two of books. Though given what I remember of them, they didn't have more books in their homes.
When you have someone to do the actual work - and I assume packing and un-packing as well - you can afford to keep more books 
My father told me of the first time he and my mother were moving. The mover didn't bother to check in person how much they had - a couple of teachers with young children = usually not much money and few possessions, but they happened to be in their late thirties, and readers, and in my father's case, prone to impulse book-buying.
I don't think that mover ever again failed to check in person before he gave an estimate. |
Lol. Bad move by your parents' mover. Good thing he wasn't moving them cross-country.
I do own a good number of books, but keep only those I wanna reread. I prefer to unpack them myself. (Movers will unpack, but your books end up in disarray.) Over repeated moves, I learned to take photos of my bookshelves beforehand. When my books arrive on the other end, I reassemble them like a jigsaw puzzle. It's much quicker than my going through all my books, getting caught up and leaving off unpacking to read, lol.
I know a former book critic with 30,000+ books. He moved, ended up having to store many of his books. He would fly back to his old state and visit his books in a storage locker, lol. His wife then won a fellowship with a moving stipend. With so many books, they had to pay out of pocket. Their moving estimators loved them.