Don’t like books

Well, its not exactly that I don’t like them, I just am not enthralled by old ones, antiques ones, collections of them. I love literature, love reading but books to me are no different than cds or dvds in that its what’s inside that counts.

And having said that, I find certain designs very cool, such as the metal curved book below. When I was a bookseller I saw many designs that left me flabbergasted; that one, another from Phaidon in an airfilled bubble, books as pillows, books with texture, with smells, books that folded out for yards. But I like interesting designs on shampoo bottles too.

My house is full of books but they are simply artifacts of my reading -the leftovers. People who came into the store knew me as a voracious and far ranging reader and simply assumed I liked books as objects. Kind of. For a minute. But no more than a good looking dinner laid out in front of me. I’m thinking it looks good but what does it taste like, and once I’ve eaten, it is behind me.

Burp.