I suppose, in some hypothetical alternative multiverse, there might be a time and place where it was possible.

One can NEVER have too many books. EVER.

If your collection is similar to a public libraries, mostly fiction, you have too many books.

Only when you are moving!

When I purchased my retirement home , my ,"little ," brother , phoned our Mom and told her , to tell me to get rid of my books . Mom can read a hard back in a day , and where she lived , they sent a library truck weekly to drop off her stack of books for the week . I told Mom , the new-to-me house I'd just bought , came with a library . We laughed . I have an additional three book cases , and a large portion of the shelves in the library are double stacked . I've read all except those in a foreign language , at least once , and sometimes more often . The nice thing about growing older is , memory fades , and I can reread a book without knowing how it's going to end . Had a man once tell me , that keeping books , was like owning a trophy case . My response was , it's more like a room full of friends , I can reread them when I can't get around , or loose power , I can share special ones with other friends , if you stack them on outside walls , they provide insulation for a cold room , they're decorative , they improve your mind , expand your knowledge , and in a dire emergency , if you loose heat during a horrible winter storm , and you're really , really desperate , you can maybe , put your least favorite in the fireplace .

Never too many books. Just not enough shelves!

Yes. When they topple over and smother you, there are too many.

There's no such thing as too many books. Too many bibles....yeah, maybe, if they fall into the wrong hands.

I wanted to vote both ways, I know I can (and do) have more than enough books and I will not live long enough to read them all but on the other hand, I can't help myself. A good book comes by, open to possession and I can't pass it up. Of late I have tried hard to limit my "book" collecting to Stephen King (and his son) books but I have a very hard time getting rid of excess books that I already own. Did haul 2 boxes to the library for their sale last year but have not looked at the home "library" for discards since. I rarely feel any compunction about collecting more ebooks.
This is JUST my King shelves:

Yes, if you are paying $500 each month for two storage units since there is no room at home.

The most burdensome feeling connected to lots of books is space and mobility. I like to travel a bit and of necessity, have to leave some books behind. With fiction it doesn't matter much because they've either been read, occupying shelf space or yet to be read and trip eligible. By far, most reading is non-fiction.

Except for biographies, texts and topics are often interelated and I enjoy the stimulation of cross-referencing to compare related concepts expressed by original thinkers who've assigned different labels or even coined terms applied to their ideas. Being without access to compare one text with another while away from home is very frustrating.

Kindle is no less frustrating. I mind far less losing and replaciing books loaned out to vanish, than losing a tablet containing many titles to some thief or, worse yet, absent minded old bastard...

This site can be a refreshing alternative sometimes to the, albeit better researched and articulated ideas of acclaimed and obscure origiinal thinkers. It is alive and interactive. Exchanges are still lacking in desirable quantity but quality has appeared now and then and is worth it.

I'm thoroughly confident that it will serve as a filter in meeting women with similar curiosities, knowledge and passions to share.

It all depends on what you consider to be too many books. In 1999 when I was moving house I noticed how many books I had accumulated over the years. Knowledge is weighty matter, especially, when you have to carry box after box up three flights of stairs.

And I thought I had too many books! I only have a 6ft bookcase and 5 books on my nightstand. I might sell most of my DVDs I don't want anymore, just to have an empty shelf on my bookcase for more books.

I vote 'yes', because I've had to move them.

I don't just read all my books- I read them repeatedly. I had too many hard copies in my Kentucky home, so when I moved to Thailand, I donated the best illustrated nature books to my home-schooling-mom niece, and the rest to the local library.

Now my Kindle app storage is getting crowded, and some are books I don't read that often, or had enough the first time. The best thing would be to own a Kindle reader so I don't have to pay for new books, but can just "borrow" them.

If it interferes with your life, wellbeing and happiness, yes.

I have a full wall at the end of my living room floor to ceiling and wall to wall shelves full of books and magazines with some of my mothers teapots and so forth of the very top shelves. I have so many interests and mom always said I was one that could read a book and learn how to do anything. She exagerated of course the way mothers do; but I have learned a great deal from books.

I'm not a huge "book" reader but I love books so collect as many as you can.

The question is incomprehensible.

Only when you are moving!

You can never have too many books...You just need a bigger house.

Fuck no. Especially now that I have a Kindle...

No such thing as enough books... though these days I try to get Kindle editions when possible. I have a lot of hard copies left too.

Also Kindle has helped me greatly with this issue.

Less trees killed so I can re-read my favorites all the time.

I do love the ones I've got in my library in the basement though. But Kindle is cheaper and doesn't weight what book does either. (Important when you already had carpal tunnel surgery on both wrists!).

Don't read as much -have more books than that. LOL