Why to keep your books
01/18/10 10:21 Filed in: books
Margaret Atwood has several
good reasons, including:
If you’ve saved up some paper books, you can read them by candlelight, and then toast marshmallows on them if you don’t like them. As you huddle around the embers of your carefully-guarded fire, with no television, no computer, and no phone, you’ll be glad you kept a few. Anyway, they make good insulation.
I have a cold north wall insulated entirely with books. I wonder if we can measure the R factor in some way.
If you’ve saved up some paper books, you can read them by candlelight, and then toast marshmallows on them if you don’t like them. As you huddle around the embers of your carefully-guarded fire, with no television, no computer, and no phone, you’ll be glad you kept a few. Anyway, they make good insulation.
I have a cold north wall insulated entirely with books. I wonder if we can measure the R factor in some way.