Well I have to admit that books are my heroin, I have many and I have many on Kindle and Audible and eBooks. Now all I have to do is learn to read.

I saved the books I wanted to reread or use for reference. Otherwise I also do one in, one out. Moving to a travel trailer 3 1/2 years did a lot to help me make important decisions on my library

Books are old friends to me. Some I pass along to others I know who share the passion of reading, some I refuse to part with. I do try to keep it reasonable. I move too much not to.

One and one out I believe that's a good plan.

I agree with you and see that you are indeed a literate hiker.

Sounds like a capitalist approach, she should read Marx.

I collect rpg books. My grandfather bought me d&d box set in 1975 for my birthday.

I tend to make use of libraries myself. It saves accumulating books and findign space for them all.

When I find books I really really like, then I'll buy a copy for th econvenience of later rereading it.

I think that is one of the reasons that you write so well and simple, yet profound and deep. I do appreciate that al lot . Thank you !

I gave up owning printed books when I started to move by myself. Previous moves we always had movers hired for us. When it is DIY, that is too much weight. I schleped loads of books to Half Price Books and sold them. Now most of my books are on Kindle if I keep them, or from the library.

I have about 800 books on my shelves. Most I've read, some I haven't or didn't finish, but only rarely do I part ways with any of my books. I've enjoyed reading almost since I could read and I like having books. I like the aesthetic of shelves filled with books. I plan to keep getting more books for as long as I have room for them.

In general I agree with her, strongly for me. But I was a minimalist since well before it became a pop-culture thing.

Having said that, if things-books or whatever-give you pleasure to keep, then they aren't clutter. So good for you.

So called guru's like that shouldn't make blanket statements, they are no all seeing oracles

I am keeping my vinyl records and books forever!

You have to remember, that books are only as good as the people who wrote them. It is therefore much better to read a good book twice, than ten bad books once.

If you buy book that you can understand on first reading, then you are wasting your money.

I/we strongly agree. The only overtly stated rule we made when we got married was ' No one will ever be criticized for buying a book '.

And when my mother closed her craft/book store years later we inherited all her book display shelves. For a very long time our apartment looked much more like a library than a living space. (Voice of experience: That's only a good thing up to a point -- Ha, ha.)

Now I have to admit we've become lazy. We've replaced most of the books we read for enjoyment with electronic Kindle editions and the only hardcopy books We've kept out for ourselves are as much keepsakes as they are for reading. Ha, ha, again.
My wife even likes to go to sleep with audio books. 128GB memory cards can be wonderful things.
And the Kindle lights up in the dark and weighs a lot less than umpteen volumes.

Books only age from abuse so there's no reason to 'take a merciless ax' to them. That sounds like the thinking of a city dweller with too limited space to me.

You are spot on! I have books that I've read a half dozen times. Each time I find a bit that I missed before. Books... No, a wall of books is better than any painting masterpiece. There is a world waiting behind each spine.

Kondo is a soulless hack who is wrong about a lot of things.