In Praise of Browsing

"There are many who, for one reason or another, prefer to have their books found out for them. But for the complete zealot nothing transcends the zest of pioneering for himself . . . We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul."

Christopher Morley, On Visiting Bookshops

This Says It All. In About Four Minutes Flat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r21XxW2KII