Some people, like me for example, have too many books. I have a few hundred hardcovers and paperbacks, mostly science fiction and fantasy, living on a large bookshelf in my office next to my computer desk. For me, it's too many as I will never read most of them again, and now they are just clutter, though some of them are not worthless.
However, I'm nowhere near being in the league of this lady in Cornwall, Ontario. She has about 200, 000 books.
Standing amidst her towering piles of books, with barely enough room to move between them, Myriam Gaudet clings to the belief that each one will find a new home.
Gaudet, who owns Red Cart Books in Cornwall, Ont., now has a barn and two other farmhouses on the same property full of donated hardcovers, paperbacks and coffee table books, spanning every genre imaginable.
"If I don't take them, they go to the landfill. So I take them," she said.
"I just wish we could hang onto them long enough until the right person comes looking for them, because eventually — pretty much every book — someone will come looking for it."
It's too bad she doesn't have the staff to catalog them.
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