By Pradeep Sebastian
The pleasant style, Books approximately Books, which seems on the ebook as a actual item, as a crafted piece of artwork, the place its bibliographical facets like binding, typography, variation, situation and rarity topic up to the literary content material within - has seldom been explored in Indian writing. those essays seize the drama of bookish obsession, the fun and snares of the bookish existence and the mild insanity that's booklet love. during this selection of essays Pradeep Sebastian brings jointly notes from a bibliophile at the romance of booklet accumulating, the wonderful thing about dirt jackets, the trap of infrequent and primary variations, the joys of looking in second-hand bookshops, the bibliomania of ebook thieves, motion pictures approximately books, the interior lifetime of a reader and, after all, the author's favorite books.
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