[baroomba]

There’s something to be said for the pedagogical value of furniture. A sense of literary chronology, at least, can be absorbed by way of a shelving order, just living life in a house with books so shelved. A selection of books can and almost must, given physical limitations, indicate importance—see the Project Gutenberg index for the opposite.

[vidarh]

We went on an off-site a while back,and stayed in a house that had been the home of a major Spanish publisher,and I spent every spare moment just looking through the book shelves. It says so much about someone.