People react very strangely to the idea that you might ever throw out a book, and as a rare bookseller you have to walk a strange line. On the one hand, your entire trade is based on the fact that some books are more important than others, and you have to make calls every single day about which ones to put a price label on and which ones to ignore. On the other hand you have people out there organizing smell tours of London who, if you act like you might need to do the sensible thing and recycle a book which you couldn’t pay someone to take away, treat you like you’ve confessed to a long
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