[mairdie]

My great nephew was excited to join the marines. I bought him the whole DVD set of JAG and he was thrilled. Then I brought him all the marine books by WEB Griffin. He didn’t open a single one and his mother explained that he didn’t really read anything. This generation is lost.

My worries are what do I do with my entire library. As a packrat, I have every book I ever owned from Golden Books up, as well as all the books owned by my mother and grandparents. There’s a 42’ hallway with shelves floor to ceiling on both sides. One side for paperback sized books. One for full sized. The library has a 10’ ceiling and has 8 1/2 bays of shelves for oversized books. The genealogy books are in 4 bookcases upstairs and 4 downstairs. All the books that don’t fit are in boxes in closets.

I grew up reading from babyhood. These books are table stabilizers for uneven legs to this generation. So sad.

[Mogger]

My worries are what do I do with my entire library.

Same as your entire post, and not much different here.

A complete collection of bound Harper's from their first one in the 1840s to 1910 when they went leftist.

Genealogy and history collection and MANY other fields.

[Marmolade]

I’d love to see your collection. Your hallway of books is a dream. I grew up an avid reader and always wanted to have a home with a dedicated library in it. I’ve settled for bookcases kept in various rooms over the years.
Now it looks like we will need to downsize, but I will always hang on to a core library, including a good selection of kids books.

[Tired of Taxes]

We had hundreds of books on bookshelves all over the house. I feel sad whenever I think about them. When I moved, I had no other choice but to give most of them away. Well, I hope other people are enjoying them now.

[daniel1212]

My great nephew was excited to join the marines. I bought him the whole DVD set of JAG and he was thrilled. Then I brought him all the marine books by WEB Griffin. He didn’t open a single one and his mother explained that he didn’t really read anything. This generation is lost. My worries are what do I do with my entire library. As a packrat, I have every book I ever owned from Golden Books up, as well as all the books owned by my mother and grandparents. There’s a 42’ hallway with shelves floor to ceiling on both sides. One side for paperback sized books. One for full sized. The library has a 10’ ceiling and has 8 1/2 bays of shelves for oversized books. The genealogy books are in 4 bookcases upstairs and 4 downstairs. All the books that don’t fit are in boxes in closets. I grew up reading from babyhood. These books are table stabilizers for uneven legs to this generation. So sad.

A restaurant I used to deliver to in the 80's had the walls lined with books. Very quiet and well-insulated. Sounds like your house.

Today, rapid visual and text overload trains the mind to engage in cursory examination as well as lack of retention. Like as seeking God and Divine Truth prepares the heart for appreciative, valued reception, versus of little value, so the ease of seeing images as well as text cheapens it, and fosters reducing life to an easily accessed smorgasbord of largely superficial interactions.

Google search now restricts search results to just 10 per page, and of usually insufficient responses.