From Susan Hill’s new book Howards End Is On the Landing:
It began like this. I went to the shelves on the landing to look for a book I knew was there. It was not. But plenty of others were and among them I noticed at least a dozen I realised I had never read.I pursued the elusive book through several rooms and did not find it in any of them, but each time I did find at least a dozen, perhaps two dozen, perhaps two hundred, that I had never read.And then I picked out a book I had read but had forgotten I owned. And another and another. After that came the books I had read, knew I owned and realised that I wanted to read again.I found the book I was looking for in the end, but by then it had become far more than a book. It marked the start of a journey through my own library.
I so want to do this.
That's one of the reasons I'll never own a Kindle…