Yeah, we aren't ascetic monks. We are all entitled to the small things that make us happy, as long as it doesn't hurt those around us. This sounds like a relatively harmless hobby, and the fact that she didn't collect to auction off the books later show that she wasn't really looking to profit off this, and it's being worked on to be come public property now? This is a great example of how a socialist society should treat the personal property of certain collections after the owners death.