Editor's Note: If you didn't get a chance to read
Last Friday, I left the cozy comfort of my small office (it's only a corner of my dining room) for the sophisticated
environs of the Electronic Arts campus.
We book folk are often socially inept or, if ept, we'd rather be reading: excepting the occasional clunker, a close relationship with books is very satisfying to the single/divorced and persnic
As I cannot eat meals at home without a few savory print-based side dishes as accompaniment, I routinely have reading matter piled on my little dining room table.
Many years ago, when I was a first-year high school English teacher, I overheard some of the veteran teachers talking in the faculty room of our school.  The conversation went something like this
I see by the papers a recent article in the Financial Times of London on the general subject of book theft, the occasi