More specifically concerning: bibliophilia
without books
9 December 2003, around 9.48.
On the whole we may conclude that Casaubon had strained his narrow means in this one direction of expense. Pinched everywhere else, he spent all he could save on books. Book-buying was to him not the indulgence of a taste or a passion, it was the acquisition of tools. While mere bibliomania is insatiable, the […]
the common reader
30 September 2011, around 6.07.
…or observations on using a digital reader. ((By digital readers, I mean a portable digital reading device which one can hold easily in one’s hands as easily as (if not more so) the standard trade paperback.)) My brain hasn’t figured out the digital reader yet. ((For those with an interest in such things, I’m using […]
goats and sheep
2 October 2011, around 20.46.
books and souls, sheep and goats.