What We Do to Books

'There has always been a lot of discussion about the effect that reading books has on us. Far less attention has been paid to the effect that we (the readers) have on them (the books). I don’t mean on the reputations or royalties of the authors who wrote the books but on the actual physical objects themselves.' - Geoff Dyer


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/books/review/reading-life-what-we-do-to-books.html?_r=1&ref=books