The cleanest book on a dusty bookshelf is usually a dirty one.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Books do furnish a room.
If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner.
Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshelf.
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
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 guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
I can't throw books away. My wife is always telling me to get rid of some.
The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.