Too many books?

Having decided to attempt to tidy up my bookshelves today, I realised I have run out of space. Shocking seeing as I only bought 2 new bookshelves less than a year ago. So I asked myself can a person have too many books?

Most books you can fit into 3 categories:
Books you will read more than once
Books you will never read again
Books you begin to read and give up halfway through

So what do you do with those books that belong in the last 2 categories? Do you keep them thinking 'Yeh, I'll read them in ten years time.' or do you get rid of them, probably for half the price you bought them and therefore losing about £4 for every book you sell. If you keep them you're only going to have to buy more bookshelves for any new books that you buy and say you buy a new bookshelf every two years, thats about...£1050. Quite expensive. So if you sell those unwanted books how much would that be? Well say you buy 25 unwanted books per year, and when you sell them you lose about £4 of the original price so thats...£7500 less off.

So, the result? You can never have too many books because it's simply too expensive to bother getting rid of all the ones you don't want. Just keep buying new bookshelves every couple of years and you'll be around 6000 quid better off by the time you're placed in the soil.