I'll argue that you'll get more utility out of a portable gas range than out of almost any book randomly pulled from your shelf, or any 10 books. I could go to

I'll argue that you'll get more utility out of a portable gas range than out of almost any book randomly pulled from your shelf, or any 10 books. I could go to my bookshelf right now and probably select 20 books that I have never more than glanced through and quite honestly will likely never read. Maybe someday I'll find a burning need to refer to a VAX architecture manual, but if I want to go camp out even once or twice a year, the portable range would be more useful. Now, a portable gas range won't get you the massive HN/San Francisco cred you'll get from a house full of books, that's a given.