Alberto Manguel’s Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (New and Noteworthy, Books, 5 April) appears to be a most enthralling read. Nevertheless, as an academic endeavouring to dispose of a massive private library, should I really purchase just one more book?
R. E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
UCL
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