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Originally Posted by Iridal
My parents have a huge library in their house with thousands of paper books that they've collected over the years. You just have to walk into that room to realize that yes, books do smell good. When I was younger and still living at home I just loved spending time there, looking at the cover art, reading a book in a comfortable chair.
I have a reader now because it's so much easier to carry around, but I'll probably never stop buying (collecting) paper books.
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It's funny, because when I was a child I always dreamed of having a large lush, floor to 12' ceiling filled library. Perhaps that was why working in a library was one of my first jobs.
One of my reasons for buying a reader is that I have 10' of book shelving and when I moved to S. Florida a few years ago, my biggest weight was all of these books. Although I love them, it really wasn't practical. So, I try to go through my books periodically and scale them down. Any paperback novels that I read are definitely out. I never liked paperbacks. They seem so temporary.