Brevity is the soul of wit...

Sections in the bookstore: Books You Haven’t Read - Books You Needn’t Read - Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading - Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written - Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered - Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First - Books Too Expensive Now and You’ll Wait ‘Til They’re Remaindered - Books Ditto When They Come Out in Paperback - Books You Can Borrow from Somebody - Books That Everybody’s Read So It’s As If You Had Read Them, Too - Books You’ve Been Planning to Read for Ages - Books You’ve Been Hunting for Years Without Success - Books Dealing with Something You’re Working on at the Moment - Books You Want to Own So They’ll Be Handy Just in Case - Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer - Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves - Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified - Books Read Long Ago Which It’s Now Time to Re-read - Books You’ve Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It’s Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them

 from If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino

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