Old Books

"Ich träumte von den Schmerzen der Dichter; ich weinte mit ihnen ihre schönsten Tränen, ich empfand sie nach bis zum Herzensgrunde; sie ergriffen, zerrissen mich, und zuweilen war mir, als machte mich der Enthusiasmus, den sie mir einflößten, zu ihresgleichen." Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

I'd like to be tucked away here with a good supply of tea, researching something fascinating.

Old book collection © Cathy HORNER (PhotoArtist. Johnson City, Tennessee, USA)

Old books make me want to read more just so my new books will look like this one day.

Decaying books in an abandoned manor home.

Old Book || © || Robert D’Costa || More

Many people, other than the authors, contribute to the making of a book, from the first person who had the bright idea of alphabetic writing through the inventor of movable type to the lumberjacks who felled the trees that were pulped for its printing. It is not customary to acknowledge the trees themselves, though their commitment is total. ~Forsyth and Rada, Machine Learning

books with hinges, shelves in closets ... What will they think of next?

Alte Weisheiten / Old Wisdom, 2011© michi64 (Photographer, Dresden, Germany) via FotoCommunity.de

1868. “She was unlike most girls of her age, in this- that she had ideas of her own." -Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone