The pleasure of book collecting

Whatever collecting is, it isn’t a hobby. It’s an obsession, an addiction. You get tired and a little annoyed of people humoring you, smiling indulgently when you speak of your obsession, as if it were some stamp and coin collecting phase from high school that you hadn’t outgrown as an adult.

It makes you wonder, doesn’t it, why we collect at all? Not just books — why do we collect anything?

via The pleasure of the pursuit.

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