Yes. It is becoming a problem.



Hmm. Yes and no. I don't go hunting, and I do not really care about "collectibility" per se. But I am very sensitive to the aura of books. Relax. I do not mean shimmery lights. But the sense of history and age and closeness to the author (signatures, first editions, owned by particular people close to the author++). I recently raided a great aunt's cabinet and took away a gardening book from the 1700s, for example. I am thrilled. I will probably never read it. I suppose it is almost fetishistic (in the cult sense, not the sex sense).



Never. Never ever. I did when I was a kid, because that is what someone told me to, but I haven't since I started buying books on my own. I did not even get rid of the Hannah Montana book Tom got me for Christmas a couple of years back.



I did as a kid. I practically lived in the library. I still remember the summer the library was closed as one of the scarier of my life. But while I still visit the library to do research and for work purposes, I hardly ever take out novels. And I quite often end up buying the books I look at in the reading rooms. (That said: don't you dare close down the public libraries, Cameron.)



Yes. As I said, I prefer old books to new, and I like a book with some history behind it. Used book shops are what heaven would be like for me if I had one.



They smell so nice, and I like the feeling of holding something that connects to other periods. I like finding inscriptions, and I feel books are more "real", somehow, if they are older and have been thumbed through a lot. Glossy new books, especially of the paperback variety, are ... I don't know.