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I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

I am a big book collector. I love books.

I do like having books on my shelves. I do value that life.

For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.

Though I have never thought of myself as a book collector, there are shelves in our house browsed so often, on so many rainy winter nights, that the contents have seeped into me as if by osmosis.

I collect books - a lot of books.

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.