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Yes, there is such a thing as too many books. I was semi-apprenticed with a Seattle rare books dealer for a while and he was very familiar with people who destroyed their lives with books. Essentially the same hording disease that results in the cat lady with 163 cats on the premises half of whom are sick and dying because you can't actually take care of them all.
The goal should not be too have a lot of books but to have a reason for each book you have. That was a very important lesson I learned. I'm now pretty aggressive at getting rid of books that don't have a purpose. Pseudoscience and junk science books have a free pass to my shelves. Everything else has to earn its board. The way he phrased it was "are you a book collector or are you a book accumulator?"
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