This fall, we lost about sixty books to a plumbing failure. This led to reflections along the lines of, Well, I definitely enjoy Peterer Schneider's The German

This fall, we lost about sixty books to a plumbing failure. This led to reflections along the lines of, Well, I definitely enjoy Peterer Schneider's The German Comedy, but will I really want to read it again? My estimate is that twenty or so I don't really want back. I suspect that the same ratio holds for the house generally; but a lot of the books are my wife's, and her and my criteria will be different.