Bibliomania can ruin your life. Be sure to read every book you buy and if you don't read it then get rid of it.
You must beat your tsundoku or you will be eaten by it. Having an antilibrary does have it's warm reassurance and it is true that books do go out of print and become difficult to obtain. Nevertheless, this is an age of the pan-dimensional Amazon's Bay.
Most of your library can be reduced to a photo archive of the covers, as one friend does during his regular cullings. He is not a researcher however.
Peppa Pig defines a talent as something you're good at doing which you also like to do. But can a talent for research emerge without books to read and peruse and refer to?
Books are the tools of my trade. For me to have read every book in my library would be as bad as having read none of them. If I had the resources I would build a room of modest area but with 8 meter high walls. One wall would be a bookshelf (and a built-in ladder). The other three would be a blackboard, a whiteboard, and a blank white plaster wall. The door would be through the bookshelf. The ceiling would be lightly tinted glass.
But until that room, until that day. The books must be contained. Be discriminating.
