A Point of View: Is there still any point collecting books? - BBC News

A lifetime of collecting books has left the writer Howard Jacobson with back injuries, a lack of living space and a sense of sheer pointlessness - but he'd do it all over again.
A lifetime of collecting books has left the writer Howard Jacobson with back injuries, a lack of living space and a sense of sheer pointlessness - but he'd do it all over again.

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