The thingness of books is a sensual experience of sight, smell and feel. That’s why people obsess over old books, and why they steal them. In The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, Allison Hoover Bartlett profiles John Gilkey, a man for whom books were building blocks for a whole new identity.
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Link to book: The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession