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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It might soften the blow if you create a space for some books in your current house. Get some nice built-ins for the rare books and say how important it is for you to have a piece of the library in your house, but you won’t be able to keep all of them.[/quote]

Be gracious and considerate of their feelings.  They think they are doing you a favor, so treat the ILs kindly about the matter.  They want you to have them, but it is just not practical.[/quote]

OP here.  I agree with you, but I don't know if there is a way at all to decline the offer and still make them believe we are gracious.

ILs are very nice people though, but older people can be sensitive you know.  I do not want to hurt any one's feelings.  If we had a mansion I would be happily take all the books, well, maybe not happily.  [/quote]

Then maybe fib to them and take them, but don't keep them.  Donate them to a good cause - a school, or something they would not be all that mad about, if they were alive.

They sound like good people, trying to do a good thing.  I would feel differently if they were pushy and entitled about it.[/quote]

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