I move alot and I had to give up schlepping books everywhere I went. It was very freeing once I let it go.
I had to force the wife to at least dump the paperbacks. It was difficult, but when the truck is half taken up with heavy boxes of books, you gotta put your foot down.
Yes, I just moved and it's true. I spent 6 months taking books to old folks homes, the Salvation Army, anybody who would take them. At one point we had the living room, the den, the bedrooms and the garage walls covered with books. They're nice to have in middle age and when you have children, but after that, it is liberating to let them go.