Comment by WalterBright

11 hours ago

My dad left me several thousand books. Mostly about airplanes and warfare.

If you have a library that you want to keep out of the landfill, your job is not storing them, but convincing another human being (who's younger than you) that the books are of value. If no one you know has ever borrowed or expressed interest in them, then the shelf you relegate them to is as good as the landfill.