An Experiment In Reading

4. You will buy another copy of a book you already own if you encounter a particularly beautiful edition. Fancy endpapers! Genuine leather binding! It’s a collector’s item, really. You’d be foolish NOT to buy it.

jadestallion:

SPOILER ALERT:

Myrtle awakens in the depths of the robot prison where she has been incarcerated to prevent her consorting with competitive robot-engineers. But Myrtle is too lively to allow this. Waiting until night-fall, when the robot guard shifts via space elevator to the rotating gun ship…

littlebrown:

Do you have books in almost every room of your house? Do you have at least one pile of “to read” books somewhere in your home that is seemingly getting larger by the minute? Are you currently using books to, shall we say, accessorize your house—as pedestals for lamps, decorative …

Are you a book hoarder?

bookriot:

We asked you to share your favorite stories with characters seeking vengeance against those who have done wrong. They take things into their own hands, and they make the wrongs right again. Here are the titles you shared:

Medea by Euripides

Titus Andronicus and Hamlet by William Shakespeare

“The Great Gatsby” (failed revenge, but revenge)