The Privilege of Having Too Many Books

We buy books because we like to think we are buying the time to read them.

That line is one you see on coffee cups and tacky wall hangings. But it’s one of the deft observations of a privileged life.

I packed my Kindle for the recent holiday. It has about 3000 books I’ll never read nestled in on it. I have about 18 things on the go that I flick and scroll…