A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
books
Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
I love to lose myself in other men's minds.... Books think for me.