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I’ve 15 physical books: I’m not embarrassed by what it seems to say about me
Do you have to actually own books to enjoy reading?
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Among the US respondents of a YouGov survey, 14 per cent own between 11 and 25 books, while 25 per cent own at least 100.
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I own only about 15 physical books at the moment. I got the feeling this seemed appalling to some people when someone kindly pressed a gift of a book into my hands with an earnest wish for me to “start reading again” (read: “do something intellectual”).
I read for work and play all the livelong day, so who says you have to actually own books to enjoy doing so? Why are printed books – and some extravagant displays of them – sometimes seen as a proxy for how much thinking one does?
