My parents suffer from a much smaller-scale version of this problem. The quantity of books is probably only in the hundreds or thousands altogether so there's n

My parents suffer from a much smaller-scale version of this problem. The quantity of books is probably only in the hundreds or thousands altogether so there's no threat of collapse; however, the living space is tiny, and doing anything to sort, donate, or sell the books is exhausting, particularly since some are still "keepers" so there's tremendous debate over which ones to try to move out. On a good, dedicated, full-time day of this one might be able to get a dozen or so into the hands of a new owner. Fortunately, I think a lot of it will be replaceable with a Kindle in the near future, which will make it much easier to start moving them out.