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Good books make good fuel

Is it time to burn my books?

My wife has already told me she is getting rid of the lot the moment I go. So, given the cost-of-living crisis and the rocketing price of fuel, is this the year for me to clear the grate and set a match to all my treasured tomes?

I have at least 10,000 volumes, and they’re worthless. I know because Rick Gekoski – since the 1980s, arguably the world’s leading dealer in literary archives – popped by to by Edward Heath not so much. (I have none of the former, and three of the latter.)

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