For some, it's a status symbol. A full brain usually has a full bookshelf, but the converse isn't necessarily true. People will pretend to have a full brain b

For some, it's a status symbol. A full brain usually has a full bookshelf, but the converse isn't necessarily true. People will pretend to have a full brain by showing off a full bookshelf. In fact, The Great Gatsby has a library full of books with uncut pages. It use to be that the printer printed books by folding them like an accordion and just binding one side. Therefore, every pair of pages in the book would be bound together, and you had to cut them apart as you read it for the first time. You can see some books nowadays emulating this sort of thing with the ragged edges, sometimes. Gatsby didn't read books--he never cut them. He just had them to show off to Daisy.