Houses Without Tomes Aren’t Homes

You can’t line a hallway or living room with e-books.

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Books are home. I mean home in the sense of being lost in the reading of them, living within their fictions and intellectual arguments. But even before the actual reading, books are home in the sense that a house isn’t a home unless it’s lined with books.

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