On 01/16/2016 08:33 PM, Don Y wrote:
But, I *do* keep references like the TeX books, various language manuals,
The Unicode Standard, CRC, Graphics algorithms, Knuth, Stevens, Comer, etc.
Things that I'll want to pick up and thumb to find a particular reference
or take off to a quiet corner to refresh my memory.

Even some of those could use some pruning. I've got a good collection of
Perl books but the question is if I'm ever going to use Perl again. Then
there is the J++ book, if you want to talk about dead and gone.