Books Are Inconvenient – and That’s a Good Thing0

• Culture, Family, Featured, Literature
• June 19, 2026

When I was a child, my parents built a library with 15-foot bookshelves, which, as it turned out, weren’t large enough to hold all my father’s books. His desk and armchair were surrounded by a forest of stacked volumes so that you had to navigate carefully to make it through the room. I caught his