Somewhere I once read an answer from Umberto Eco to this question that was along the lines that if he had already read them he would not need to keep them, his

Somewhere I once read an answer from Umberto Eco to this question that was along the lines that if he had already read them he would not need to keep them, his library was explicitly mostly for things he hadn't read, so that he could always go and get something new from there whenever he wanted. For some reason I had never thought about it myself, but that answer made a lot of sense to me when I read it (and still does). Until that moment I too was one of those people who thought one should have read most books in one's own library. EDIT: Or was it Nassim Nicholas Taleb? Now that I tried to think about where I read that I'm beginning to doubt whom it was from. Or maybe Taleb talking about Eco? -- https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/ https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antili...