Books, libraries, bookshelves, bookstores, books in pictures, books in hands, books in piles, books in public spaces, books on various topics, books just because, books for everyone, books about everything and I've found great joy in the lending and receiving of books; sometimes, I might read just to convey — and books are changing: this is also a reaction to that.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of his voice; then we have the plow and the sword, extensions of the arm. But the book is something else altogether: the book is an extension of memory and imagination.

Jorge Luis Borges