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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6287025" data-attributes="member: 177">I used to think that.  Now, I wonder.  My wife and I moved into a house a few years ago.  We consolidated our collections, have a room that's a library, and it doesn't nearly hold all the books...And, we find that the vast majority of them just *sit* there.  Have not moved since we put them on the shelf 5 years ago.  We are most certainly not rereading most of them at any rate of speed.  And I have to think - how many books that I read 10 or 20 years ago have I reread recently?  A couple?  Most of my reading is new things, not old tings I've already read.  We have a whole room holding paper for us that we never use!  Am I really supposed to be so worried about whether I'll still have it 20 years from now, if that's 20 years on a shelf, doing nobody any good anyway?</blockquote>