Book ownership ...

I own many books. Three, four thousands perhaps, even more, I don’t know. But this is not an important point. Few belonged to my father, others to my brother, some to my son, many to my wife, a large family library in any case. Three generations’ readings. Different books, different times, different interests. My father was a post Gutenberg printer, he was used to think that books were just tools to read the world. He used to say that even over two thousand years ago Qohelet said that there were too many books. Today I have about two hundred ebooks in my cloud waiting to be read besides the thousands in paper on the bookshelves. And you talk of ownership? I wonder what it does this mean …