There are way, way too many old books in this house. The problem is that this family gets sentimental about them even if reading them is no longer useful, and they're sometimes hard to dispose of in a responsible way. The friction is high, so they don't get moved.
I will attempt to combat this by writing up what books are there, so that I can pick them out for disposal at a different time, in one big batch. This is a fairly large project, so I won't do it all at once, I'll just do one box for this week.