Earlier this evening on Bluesky, I launched a new suggestion for a collective noun for books, namely 'an insufficiency'. The term struck me as I was considering some of the books in my collection of primary sources from the Middle Ages, and how few I actually possess. Luckily, I have enough that I can do quite a lot of writing and research even without access to a physical university library collection, but I do not have enough. Most likely, I will never have enough, because new needs keep arising and more books keep demanding my attention. Any library will therefore always remain insufficient for me, and so no matter how many books there are in any collection, there collective noun has to be 'an insufficiency'.
One of my book cases, demonstrating the insufficiency of my personal library
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