Have seen this story linked on mobileread.com:

This guy in Wilkes-Barre Pa. has ca. 3000 books and thus “poses a fire hazard”. So the authorities were forced to close his home.

Yeah sure, fireman Guy Montag can confirm that books do pose certain hazard…

But why only books? CDs, DVDs, VHSes, Betamaxes, are all plastic, so they’re probably a hazard too. Digitize them all, and send the originals to a museum!

Damn, I am fine reading off the PRS-500, I don’t miss the smell/touch/feel of a real book. Call me a fetishist, but I just can’t imagine enjoying music without that je ne sais quoi of “physical” CDs, inlays, booklets and digipaks!