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Comment by Brian_K_White | Hacker News Reader

It was never waste if he enjoyed them, and merely owning is a perfectly legit expression of "enjoy".

It was better than our netflix/amazon/audible/disney/spotify/pandora/... media subscriptions.

This sounds nice, but if the man filled 2500 sq feet with books and magazines and didn't read them, it sounds a bit more like an episode of Hoarders and it's certainly not healthy.

Maybe you're right. But it would have been better for all of his family if he'd literally lit that money on fire instead of buying thousands of unread books.

At least then, he wouldn't have left us with a huge problem to deal with in his wake.

I have less than zero sympathy for this sob story, which is exactly appropriately reciprocal to the level of respect and understanding you are granting to your family member.

There is absolutely no way to turn someone else's pile of books that you don't approve of into any kind of harm done to you. Not even through this route of death and bequest.

Sell the house for whatever it fetches wothout laying a finger on it. Then the horrible books are not your problem.

Oh, you want to extract more money from the sale? Or you want to use it yourself? That is still not his obligation. You are essentially saying you wish your parent gave you more, but trying to twist it into somehow they cost you something.

Listen to yourself!

So ... it's all about you?

Honestly, this rant of yours isn't a good look.

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