Aha! So you may be an actual book hoarder! hehe.
I do not agree with you about it being selfish to keep books though. If I buy them, I can keep them as long as I wish. No? And if I trade them, It's sort of like I bought THEM.
From an altruistic viewpoint it seems great if you want to give books to charities or sell them. I have done that with books I got (vacant apts) that I had no interest in, and many self-help books I had no interest in.
In your case, you do not have room to keep the many books you have.
In my case, I will make room for them (not as many as you). In fact I go through them regularly to see what I am dealing with and then I start trading them, which is gratifying to me. Reading is my favorite thing to do.
But again, I don't feel compelled to keep very many. If I don't have very many books to trade, I won't get very many new (to me) books to read.
What have you decided to do with them?
