No such thing as too many books!
Written on June 20, 2009
In The Polysyllabic Spree, p 124-125, Nick Hornby is commenting on ‘So Many Books’ by Gabriel Zaid: “Zaid’s finest moment, however, comes in his second paragraph, when he says that ‘the truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.'”
Hornby continues: “That’s me! And you, probably! That’s us! “Thousands of unread books”! “Truly cultured”!…. I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. …. With each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
And now, with LibraryThing and similar services, I can create a library that isn’t limited to the books I own, but can include books I’ve borrowed from the library, or no longer own, or those I just might want to read some day.
The Polysyllabic Spree is the first book in a series collecting Hornby’s “Stuff I’ve Been Reading” columns for The Believer, followed by Housekeeping vs. the Dirt and Shakespeare Wrote for Money.
See also: “books about books” at LibraryThing
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