It's quite an unordered mess, so it looks less impressive than it sounds! I'm just getting old and have been buying for a while. I think it is compensation for

It's quite an unordered mess, so it looks less impressive than it sounds! I'm just getting old and have been buying for a while. I think it is compensation for my _awful_ memory - I read books with pencil in hand, underlining and making notes in the margins, so I like to keep the books around after I have read them. Also libraries here often don't carry the books I want to read (or they're translated), so buying makes sense for me. I don't do this with novels of course. Lately I have been thinking I should make notes on the computer instead, like Derek Sivers does, e.g. http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability To finally answer your question, I have a stack of about 250 books I haven't read yet. Some of them I'll probably never read - I once bought the 10 best poker books, but I just can't get interested in the subject anymore.