It was nothing for me to go through 200 books a year.

That is a crazy amount!

So they all got given to the person that helped me move.

This is a nice way to do it. Far more personal and I think it is nice to be able to support other people's loves.

It is crazy how expensive books have gotten these days. Part of it is that fewer people are reading them of course, but with the increase in prices, who can afford to? my wife buys books for her dad for all the special occasions and each is between 15 and 30 euros for a novel. That is a fair amount for what will take him a day to read.

I have thought about getting a kindle for my wife who likes to read, but she is so busy at the moment I don't think she would use it.

BTW, I used to keep my book collection too. I used to read a lot of science-fantasy stuff. One day, I pulled a book out of the shelf and discovered that ants and made a nest in the lot of them. It ruined them all. After that, I stopped holding onto them and then moving to Finland and moving so often, it wasn't worth starting to collect again.