A nice positive thing - going through your "treasures" can have a reward

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9. I'm glad you decided to donate the books instead.

Marie Kondo. Much literary blood has been spilled over her and her views.

If part of a book gives you joy, KEEP THE DAMN BOOK and any you don't read yes, donate them or give them as gifts. Tearing out pages? Jesus fuck no. Then she just threw those away too. The intentional, physical destruction of books is the realm of tyrants and regressives throughout the history of the written word for whom knowledge is a direct challenge to and a check on their power. It is perhaps the greatest sin a sapient creature can do, it is so antithetical to sapience. Books are whole narratives and in doing that, you remove the context and full meaning of the passage. You disenfranchise the author's message for your own selfish, ignorant desires and unenrich yourself in the process, and deny another the opportunity to enrich themselves from the same tome you've elected to destroy. Keeping personal libraries shows a dedication to knowledge and the physical manifestation of sapience and the Human Experience. No animal in creation can lay claim to such a fundamental example of enlightened existence as a person with a book. Yes, one *can* get too many but that is simply a practical matter of limitation of space. One must decide for themselves whether a single shelf of 30 books or a room of 30 shelves of books is appropriate. Digital copies are all well and good, but what happens when the provider goes offline or belly-up, or the publisher decides nah I don't want that distributor selling copies? Your copy, paid for with your money, is gone forever unless the seller had an existing and progressive policy that allowed persistent copies to exist DRM-free.

Hers is the opinion of a self-help guru trying to... irony of ironies... sell books. The Japanese have many amazing traditions and worldviews, but destroying books isn't part of that. She's managed to raise all kinds of hackles in the book-lovers' community. Hopefully enough are well-read enough to know better.