When I moved from Ann Arbor to Boston, movers came to pack our things. After the thirteenth box of books–literally–Mover #1 actually set down his tape gun and said in complete seriousness, “Do you really need all these books?”
Oh yes. I needed them.
The New York Times, however, understands that now and then one [...]

How often do we think about our books as physical objects, part of the essential furniture of our homes?

The Elegant Variation has a lovely little post about the joy of setting up one’s library again after a move:
So now the arduous task of refilling the books begins. First, we need to douse the whole collection [...]