Lileks talks about a subsite he has yet to publish Books that will never be read again:
Today’s subsite that never made it online: it’s actually stuff I got a few weeks ago. Books that will never be read again. You can’t throw them away, though. You can give them away, perhaps to a thrift store, and hope they find a good home. You fan the pages so they see light again for the first time in 70 years. You google them and find a few on Etsy or eBay.
Not in the Nogglestead library; I intend to read all my old books. The exceptions are books I’ve already read or that I have in newer editions as reading copies or sets.
Why, I even have From Gold to Grey on my side table. I should get back to that again sometime, but the elaborate Victorian page design, examples of which you see in the Lileks, makes it difficult to read during football games or when you’re easily distracted–which are the opposites of the times when I tend to pick up poetry–when I want to read a little bit at a time.
But, yeah, I hope to read those books someday. Interspersed with my other aspirational planned reading, including the Summa Theologiae and The History of Civilization. So, probably never. But I cannot say definitively never. Which is optimism for me.
