~60 comics and ~25k regular books (about 80% hardback)....indeed I know the pain of space...I’ve built custom pullout shelfs to optimize space usage.
(also have will instructions on proper auction disposition to reduce any workload there and optimize inheritance)
Wow. 25k books. I got rid of about 2k and I thought that was a lot.
My mom had probably 3K books. When we started building her house behind ours about 18 years ago, she wanted her great room lined on three walls with book shelves floor to ceiling.
What she didn’t consider was that one day someone would have to deal with all those books and it’s been me. My siblings picked out what they wanted, my husband and I did. That took maybe 100 out of the collection. Next came her nieces, my children, and a friend or two. Then an antique dealer my husband knows was gifted the rest. Just too much stuff to deal with.
And my husband just informed me that HE has two victrolas in the tack room at the barn. :-/