Often when they’re selling books, people will tell me that they want their books to ‘go to a good home,’ as though they were a much loved pet or family heirloom. I have no idea whether the books I sell end up in a ‘good home’ or not, and were I to be so particular as to insist, indeed even ask my customers if they had a ‘good home’ to take the books to, I suspect I’d lose a great deal of business.
