The value of a library is mostly in the books you haven't read... yet. Umberto Eco famously had a lot to say on this topic. Nasim Taleb coined the wholly unnec

The value of a library is mostly in the books you haven't read... yet. Umberto Eco famously had a lot to say on this topic. Nasim Taleb coined the wholly unnecessary word "antilibrary" to describe this, when really, it is the library containing only fully-digested books that is the degenerate case.