When You Realize You Want an Awesome Library and Not Another Bookstore

On numerous occasions I’ve also succumbed, as bibliophiles are known to do, to the urge to keep everything I found. The collector vs. bookseller internal battle always rages below the surface, with the seller side usually winning out in times of financial distress; at least three times over the past 25 years I have amassed a personal library of over 3,000 books that was reduced to one bookcase in a matter of days (there are some books I will never, ever sell).

“I’ve had people ask me if I’d still do it knowing how it ultimately turned out. Today I can finally say without hesitation: absolutely, and I just may again.”