still on hoarding books...

yea, RIGHT.

I tried this one at home... the thing is, the 'to give away' lot was empty.

You may declare it official: I'm a book junkie, but excepting a few that I 'gave' away almost as soon as I finished reading, there isn't really any book I can part with...

I gave away the Da Vinci Code just a couple of weeks after I purchased it. Not worth any euro, on my opinion. I didn't really give it away, I just am not planning to ask it back, even though I know perfectly well it is just gathering dust in my friend's shelf.

As for the other books I have... I do need the reference ones, for a start. I mean, I got them for a reason, right? And besides, who on Earth can possibly have too many reference books?? Unless you have more than a copy of each, I mean. And I mean to keep the biographies, thank you. As for the novels, yes, I will read them again. I have read some just once, a few a couple of times. a very few up to ten(!) times.

And, to tell you the truth, I don't understand that 'you have too many books' notion.

Plus, I don't really get why reading four or five books at the same time is such a bad thing. I have been doing it all of my life - and I suspect I'll be doing it in the years to come too.