It just so happens that I make a living reading books. I’m an editor. Don’t get excited. I’ve never read anything famous before it came out. But I can easily say that I read a lot more than the average person. Basically, I read all the time.
I read a lot of fiction for work, but I occasionally get nonfiction to work on. I seem to have a speciality for YA fiction lately. I don’t know why, but that’s what authors are sending me.
Obviously, I do my work on computer, but for pleasure, I can’t imagine not holding a book in my hands with real pages to turn. I wonder if I’ll ever get an e-reader. I like the feeling that I’m holding someone’s precious commodity. They’ve nurtured it, until it came to life in the form of words on pages.
I don’t have an extremely large collection of books. I’ve moved too often in the last 7 or 8 years to keep everything I’ve ever bought. I have the essentials. It’s a lot of ancient classics: Homer in several translations, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, etc., and modern classics like Eliot, Pynchon, Faulkner, and so many others.
To answer your question simply, I adore books.