With that much money, I could buy myself and my family some sweet ass stuff and still have plenty to help a lot of other people. What's the point in owning these "original" books and paying so much money for them? Every iota of information contained therein has already been reprinted or stored in a variety of media. We're not living in the past here. Books are not holy. They're not some sacred relic. Books are cheap and beyond plentiful. All they contain is easily accessible to anyone who wants to access it. I like to read as much as anyone, but they're just books. I've noticed that those who are most wedded to the actual printed books are the most likely to be orgasmic over this collection of books. They'll never have time to read them, even if they read them. I'm sure they'd just stick them in a case and drool over them. Then they become nothing more than objects of a collection and not at all the conveyors of knowledge that the book-fetishists claim is the reason they hold books in such high regard.