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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of your day-to-day existence, reminding you, chastising you, calling to you. Plus, book collecting is, hands down, the greatest pastime in the world.

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.