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Weirdest thing I've seen was a house that had no books. It was surreal that there was a TV in each room, even small ones mounted in the bathrooms, but not a single book in the house. Mister was a bus driver, wife was some kind of a school administrator. But not a single written word anywhere under that roof that wasn't on a label. It made me sad for the kids.
Grossest was a guy's computer was misbehaving and I showed up to fix it. Every single icon and image was porn. Every. Single. One. The background was a rotating slideshow of various porn images. The worst part was when I felt the mouse was sticky, I got up to wash my hands and the faux leather chair was sticky too. Everything around the porn computer was sticky. It was honestly too much and I took an early lunch, called my boss that I wasn't feeling well, and explained I wasn't going to work on that computer. My boss was mad at first, came out to finish the job, and then added the guy to the fired customer list. Fuck that house. It also smelled weird. Like off fruit. And I can never forget that call. Nice neighborhood, great house, nice yard - absolutely disgusting person behind it all.
I have no books in my house and have tvs in most rooms (not the bathroom). I do use an ereader though.
I don't have any books anymore. I took them all, several hundred, to Goodwill a few years ago. I hadn't bought any in years because I've buying ebooks exclusively for a long time now. I have about 700 in my reader and almost any Internet connected device I have access to. My reading list is too long to reread anything, I thought others might get some use out of them.
Not having books in the house doesn't mean what it once did.
I have lots of pizza pamphlets dotting my bookshelf. I read a ton of books on my phone, but because I travel a lot I've never seen the point in paperbacks....
...except of course, when I go to friends house and see their book collection and we strike up a topic about it. People look at my pizza pamphlet collection and assume I'm an illiterate hick.
Even I have at least three books
Tbf, did you confirm their lack of library cards, kindles, and books on tape either MP3 or actual physical cassette?
Could be they just had one each checked out in the nightstand or in their work bag, or had returned the last, but hadn't checked out another yet because X, or had a huge library of digital files either bought or "acquired" from a certain archive, or something like that. I assume a school admin has access to at least a library of sorts, whether they want to read All Quiet on the Western Front or To Kill A Mockingbird again is another question.
Never know! Unless you had a warrant to search for books, then you probably would know.