Why Build a Personal Library?
5 Reasons Besides Being ‘Smug and Middle Class’ to Collect Books for Yourself
When Bruno Schröder died at 88, the retired German engineer left an enormous mystery. Emphasis on the world enormous. Behind the doors of his small house in the northwest German town of Mettingen, he assembled a library of 70,000 books—one of the largest personal libraries in the entire country.
Few of his nei…
