Teppy, same - the only reason I have space on my shelves is down to having lent multiple books to people (for example, Ken has all of my Murderbot); if they ever give them back, I'm screwed.

I've resorted to dropping books I know I'm not going to reread in my building's laundry room, which is kind of an ad hoc freecycle spot. Otherwise ... well, I could use another bookshelf.

I'd have to subdivide a room using bookshelves for the divider--I have no more wall space.

...of course I could always hang more wall art on the back of the bookshelves... Hmm.

There used to be a used bookstore in the area called (appropriately) Chaos Unlimited. It was on the second and third stories of an old townhouse and had bookshelves used as room dividers. They had to put up a sign with an arrow saying "upstairs went thataway". And you frequently had to step over the cat who, of course, liked to lie in the middle of the doorway.

Is there a read/listen from the hall? Because I think the book I’m currently listening to qualifies.

Oh yes. I have been known physically hold the book/e-reader farther from my face and kind of squint while I read when that happens. I don't have a coping mechanism for audiobooks other than letting my mind wander and not rewinding.

Once, when I was young, a story in a book scared me so much that I took the book and hid it under some things in the bottom of my closet.

This is a romance novel from an author I have liked in the past, but this book is just so bad that even being set in London cannot save it for me.

Put the book in the freezer.

Or throw it across the room. That’s always an option.