> if you have 10x more money than you need No: if you have 10x more money than you need to spend on books. That's not such a high bar to clear. (And most peop

> if you have 10x more money than you need No: if you have 10x more money than you need to spend on books. That's not such a high bar to clear. (And most people who buy a lot of books they don't read immediately do so less spectacularly than Eco. I consider myself to have a pretty bad case of Unread Book Syndrome, and for me the excess is more like 10-15%.)