Is there such a thing as having too many books?
Dushka Zapata, Voracious reader. Book lover.
Updated Feb 13, 2016 · Upvoted by William Chen and Melissa Stroud
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My father had a beautiful library.
Throughout my life, we'd all sit down to dinner as a family and talk. And books would be pulled down from the shelves and brought to the table to prove, disprove or expand whatever we were talking about.
We all did our homework in this room and used the books as reference material.
Often, when friends came over, my father gave them a book related to the conversation we had held as a parting gift.
This beautiful room which punctuated my life no longer exists.
We recently took it down because he requested in his will that every one of his books be donated to a public library close to his heart.
Books should be loved and read and held and underlined and earmarked and referred to and given away.
Used correctly, you can never have too many books.
Vocabularies：
voracious：
very greedy in eating; ravenous 贪吃的、极饿的
(比喻) very eager for knowledge, information, etc （对知识、信息等）渴求的
reference material：参考资料；
parting gift：临别的礼物、分手礼物……；
punctuate：
put full stops, commas, colons, question marks, etc into (a piece of writing) （在文字中）加标点符号、加标点；（我觉得这里可以理解成点缀吧）
~ sth. (with sth.) interrupt sth. (by/with sth.) at intervals 不时打断某事物；
will：n. 意志、意图、心愿、情感、遗嘱；
earmark：~ sb./sth. (for sth./sb.) assign or set aside sb./sth. (to or for a special purpose) （为某目的）指定或安排某人[某事物]、vt. 指定…作为特定用途: earmark a sum of money for research 拨出一笔款项作研究经费；
#无笔记，不读书#
你读的书，就是你的血肉和气质，你读过的书都将会在你的处事风格中有所体现。
