now this was a real deal! love your post. Have read every line of it, and I probably is urged to comment back to every bit of it, haha! but I would skup it to save your time. really fascinated!

'a rare book free room' -- note, the garden also was books-free!
do you consider to make an x-post to the Hive Book Club Community?

PS. I exit this post now hating pigeons even more, than I did it before. They ruined such a splendid House of Hoarded Books! Damn...

PPS. What could happen with this man after 2006? a sudden death and no heirs? 15 years ago, the house was probably fine ... looks like a nice house. and if he was forced to move out - would he part with books and videotapes? ... (I know from myself, as a book hoarder, that this is out of the question!)