[Miss Marple]

I used to do house calls as a design consultant for a furniture store. You would be amazed at the number of homes that have NO BOOKS! Pretty scary, as their vote counts as much as yours!

I can't live without books. I have to have something to read at all times!

[concerned about politics]

I can't live without books. I have to have something to read at all times!

Same here. We put in built-in shelving to take up less room. No fiction though, all referance. If we can't learn something from a book, we don't read it.

[kaylar]

It is to be hoped that they are faithful users of their public and semipublic libraries (college and university libraries are worth whatever card fee they charge)but I doubt it.

[Rollee]

How could anyone live without books? When I was a kid, I used to read the dictionary if there was nothing new left to read in the house and I hadn't had a chance to get to the library. The most sickening thing I ever saw concerning a lack of books was a new house with built into to wall bookshelves (the kind I can only dream of at this point) with fake, painted wooden books in them! This was in a private residence, and the homeowners wanted to have bookshelves. Believe me, these people are among the truly ignorant.