Good advice. I have a bookshelf with about 1,000 books and I suppose I've read maybe half of them. Many were from my late wife's collection, some are the coffee table variety (many sports, movie, & war books, New Yorker cartoons, etc). Many textbooks from our 5 collective degrees (Engineering, Anthropology, Astrophysics, Biology, Nursing). My most prized possession actually (the download of our collective brains?) My concern is that my boys will throw out most of them when I'm gone (they've already squirreled away the books and records they wanted). I remember going through my Dad's book and record collection, "borrowing" what I liked, (and I'm glad I did since after he died my Mom got rid of most of his large collection without telling us). Some of the titles we lost from Dad, I've purchased again on Ebay, etc. One was the ten volume leatherbound "Journeys Through Bookland" from the 20s, which my father said he bought one at a time from his paper route, read and reread. Fortunately, vinyl/60s Psychedelic stuff is "in" again and the boys appreciate so I don't worry about the records. They are also good readers, but I'll never be able to convey to them the meaning (and nuance) of all I've read. I have almost the entire "Classics Comics" and "Tintin" collections, which I hope to read to my grandchildren before I'm gone...perhaps forgotten art forms, but what really formed my identity as a kid (along with MAD magazine).