"Don’t we all have stronger physical and situational memories of living with books? The seasons they brought us through? How the book felt in our hands, how the colour of the cover glowed against lamplight and how we felt that day? Maybe we were falling in love and had to reread chapters because love was the only possible thing to take us out of complete, mental and physical immersion in books. Smelling them and feeling their heft and texture." Reading this gets exactly to what I've tried to say in other ways, at other times. People are calling now for us to dispense with hardbound books and even certain authors. they don't get it. You might leave certain people, loves, behind, but they are never dispensed with or even exactly "over." Thank you, Jessica, so beautiful!