Greenleigh Throne’s Reviews > First Impressions: A Novel of Old Books, Unexpected Love, and Jane Austen > Status Update

"That's the beauty of rare books," he had said one evening when he was reading a first edition of Cecilia. "If you mail a rare stamp it becomes worthless. If you drink a rare bottle of wine, you're left with some recycling. But if you read a rare book it's still there, it's still valuable, and it's achieved the full measure of its being. A book is to read, whether it's worth five pounds or five thousand pounds."