So many cookbooks so little time

My name is Nancy and I am an addict.
I am addicted to cookbooks. I collect vintage cookbooks as well as all kinds of current ones. I began my love affair with the cookbook in high school. Home ill for several days I had run out of reading material (reading...another blog for another day) and had already made my way through the entire set of Collier's Encyclopedias as well as the Atlas my parents had stocked the bookshelf in my bedroom with. Bored and not allowed to watch tv out of bed I grabbed a copy of the General Food's Kitchen Cookbook. This being the only cookbook Mom actually owned the selection of reading material was slim.   I was soon totally fascinated with the entire chapter on  menu planning, the interesting illustrations, and some of the odd combinations of foods a lot of the recipes put together. Being a teenager I was soon well again and put this interesting oddity away and forgot about it for several years. But then I found myself living in an apartment in college and needing to feed myself and I remembered that cookbook. Fortunately Mom hadn't tossed it or sold it in a garage sale. Over a Christmas break I grabbed that book and also made my very first cookbook purchase, The New York Times Cookbook. Both of these became my first go-to resources and learn tools.  That vintage General Foods cookbook is how I learned to menu plan. In the very first chapter is a discussion of not only combining foods that taste great together but that are also visually appealing. I still grab that book and review the information when I feel myself getting stale or I need to share this skill with my kids. Shortly after getting married my Motherinlaw introduced me to  what has become for me the ultimate cooking bible: The Joy of Cooking. My passion for cooking exploded and my passion for cookbooks as well. The Joy has become something of a tradition as well in the family, I gave it as a shower gift to my oldest son (who also loves to cook) and as a Christmas gift to my oldest daughter, my now exmotherinlaw gave it to my middle daughter as a gift, and I am sure it will eventually show up as a gift for my remaining children as well. Not only is it filled with good recipes it is chocked full of practical kitchen advice and food knowledge.
I was in my late 30s and new to the internet when I discovered that other people shared my odd choice of collectable, the "old" cookbook. By then I'd added to my modest selections with a mid 50s copy of Meta Givens' Modern Family Cookbook (left behind in a dusty cabinet by the previous owners of my new home)  as well as this gem: .
For me the discovery is almost as much fun as the purchase. I love browsing used bookstores, flea markets, garage sales, and auction lots of odd books and finding something I don't have and which looks interesting. And then comes the curling up in the corner of the sofa with a cup of tea in one hand and my latest vintage book in the other as I delve into the mysteries of what was once considered the cutting edge of home cooking and baking. I have found many gems inside the pages of these old books and have confirmed that the old adage of nothing being new under the sun is indeed correct.
The flipside to this hunt for the vintage is my collection of current cookbooks, I have just about every spiral bound Gooseberry Patch book  as well as just about any popular cookbook you can name published in the last 15 years. The only problem that I can see is one of space, I am running out of room to store them and yet I still see more cookbooks I want to own. What is a girl to do?