“A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive in a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer’s mind to the moment it sprang from the printing press – a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on,...”

“A book feels like a thing alive in this moment, and also alive in a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer’s mind to the moment it sprang from the printing press – a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on,...”

— Susan Orlean