Did you catch the NY Times article about people who hire someone to fill their home libraries, so that it looks nice? Turns out many books are being used for decoration, rather than reading material; they're wrapped or placed in designed boxes on shelves, to stage areas. I guess the good news is we'll never see e-books used in this fashion.
"For the spa in Philippe Starck’s Icon Brickell, the icy glass condo tower in Miami, Thatcher Wine was asked to wrap about 2,000 books in blank white paper, without titles, to provide a “textural accent” to the space. He chose mass-market hardcovers that flood the used book outlets — titles by John Grisham and Danielle Steel, or biographies of Michael Jackson, he said — because they are cheap, clean and a nice, generous size. "
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