This is the beginning of an excellent article on Biblio about collecting books - books of all sorts for all reasons: binding, beauty, rarity, subject, imprint, and even - hold for it... content... smile. It is worth a read... Enjoy.

–written by Nigel Beale

As incomprehensible as it may seem to the hard core collector, there are in fact some people who actually read the books they buy.

Although many obsess over the ‘book beautiful,’ valuing design, boards and bindings over everything else, most buy books for the information or entertainment contained within their covers. And for good reason; according to ‘Books in our Future,’ a 1984 report to the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, ‘…reading books is the activity which enriches all others. There is no business, work, sport, skill, entertainment, art or science that cannot be improved by reading and whose rewards cannot be increased by books.”
For More of this interesting article, go here:
http://www.biblio.com/blog/2010/08/its-not-just-about-the-content/#

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