[Physicist]

You should check out the record collectors.

It must be more daunting to have a huge number of records than a huge number of books. No matter how fast you read, you can in principle read faster, so even a rather large collection is within the potential reach of a human life, even if you read slowly for now.

Records take a well-defined amount time to listen to properly; once they add up to more than the longest human life span, you know you'll insult at least some of your collection by never once listening to them.

[weegee]

One collector was also a shop owner and made a good dent into trying to obtain one copy of every record ever released. I think his store inventory alone was something like 250,000 records (don't recall his personal collection number).

[wideawake]

Good point - I own about three months of music and I worry that I'll never have time to fully appreciate it all properly.

And despite the range of my book collection I still continually spend the bulk of my leisure reading time on a short list of books/authors: The Bible, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Holderlin and Joyce.

[justshutupandtakeit]

LoL thats a lot of music. Say 50*365*24 or 3-400,000 cds or records for half a century. So far I am safe.