Earlier this year I had to help clean up some of my dad's books after he died. There were about 200 legal books where various relatives said "surely these must be useful to someone" so I spent hours typing a list of titles and authors and dates of publication, so someone still in the business could review them. I doubt a single one of the books was still useful. The rest of the books were obviously even less valuable - outdated travel guides, political rants, dozens of books that had obviously never been read. Overall, a depressing and infuriating experience. The only good part was that there were convenient drop-off boxes for paper recycling near the house so I could do many carloads in one day.
Yeah no kidding, my wife has all her law books sitting around and it’s basically 300lbs of worthless crap. Not a single one will ever be opened again lol
The thing is that without some form of search cataloguing, even if there were useful information in there, you would have to already know about it in order to look for the details and the information would then lack context, e.g. subsequent developments in that area.
Contrast with Google or a specialist electronic service
