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I buy a lot of technical titles for domain knowledge in software engineering. On a given contract, I might need 10 or more books to cover unusual requirements. For a while, I purchased paper books and had a full shelf and home and a select set at my employer provided office. Along the way, some of my books in my employer provided office sprouted legs. Gone forever. I stopped bringing paper books to work. Instead, I purchased e-books in PDF format and made DVD or Bluray disks with my titles. Less weight to carry. Searchable. Easier to protect from theft.

I'm turning 67 this year. Like you, I need to begin the process of shedding unnecessary contents of my 3900 sq ft house. There is way too much stuff here.

For a while, I purchased paper books and had a full shelf and home and a select set at my employer provided office.

Been there done that. I was a service technician for over 30 years and collected every manual I could. At one point I had book shelves in my garage along one wall full of technical manuals.

Like you as soon as they became available in a digital format I got a copy, and then there came a day I no longer needed the hard copies (I was fortunate that there was a museum that came and took all the hard copies for their collection).