I think I have a “problem”. It’s not a rare one, by any means. Because I keep meeting people with the very same one.

You see, I buy books. I mean to read them. Honest. Then I don’t. Meanwhile I buy more books.

I’ve stopped counting the books I own that I haven’t read (ebooks and paper), and the count stopped at 200. This is after we gave away a LOT of books when we moved house. Like probably, again, 200.

And so I commence an endeavour. A per...