Good riddance to this kind of library. His relationship with his private library is the same as most people's: an outlet for comfortable consumerism, materialis

Good riddance to this kind of library. His relationship with his private library is the same as most people's: an outlet for comfortable consumerism, materialism, and nostalgia. What he needed was an antilibrary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary The mysterious unread tomes of an antilibrary taunt you and beckon to be read, but not necessarily re-read. The untrodden path holds more adventure than the beaten one, where the treasure has already been claimed. Books in an antilibrary are quests filling up your log, the rewards of yet unknown, possibly great.