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75 year old Sally LaRhette has over 3000 cookbooks, and she's still going. She even had to move into a new house to fit them all!

I'm starting to collect cookbooks too. Right now I have a measley 15 books, but I've tried to be well-rounded in the books that I buy, to make sure that each book is a little bit different, focusing on a different type of cooking and can teach me something new. At what point does it stop being about that and just become about collecting the books themselves, regardless of whether or not you're interested in the recipes inside? Not to say that anyone who has this many cookbooks isn't interested in the recipes, but it seems like there would come a point where a) finding the recipe you want might be difficult, and b) all the food you'd ever want to eat or make would have been reached in cookbook number...35? 206? 900? Is it the history inside the books?

But I shouldn't talk. I own a few hundred matchbooks, and I don't even smoke.