Etiquette?

This post on Paper Cuts raises my reader's hackles--well, not the post itself, but the post to which it responds.

I think I am most effronted by the idea that anyone should makes rules about the books others choose to own and have in his or her home. Though it may seem like a strange thing for someone studying to be a professor of literature to be insulted by rules made about books, reading, or literature--who are literary scholars, after all, but professional literary rule-makers?--this 'edict' seems to make books into mere status symbols. Even if Matt Selman is arguing for a sort of 'honesty' in the books one displays in one's home, what his rule really accomplishes is just another form of elitism. Why should anyone be able to tell you what books you can have or where you are allowed to keep them in your own home?

With as many books and as little space as I have at my disposal these days, I wonder where Matt Selman would have me keep the books I haven't yet read safely out of 'public' sight...under the bed, perhaps? In the dishwasher? Surely nothing could be worse--or more duplicitous!--than having a vistor in my home believe I have read Madame Bovary when in truth I have not.