When you go into someone's house for the first time, do you notice if they have books and then what they are.

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12. "You cannot tell a book by its cover"

Ever heard that?

In 2007 our house burned down and both my husband and I lost all our books. He set out to replace his; I decided to rely primarily on the local library.
When we separated in 2018, I moved first to a studio apartment, then a 2 bedroom apartment, and finally a 2 + den house in 2021. I kept two bookcases to hold books which I bought, and one now holds primarily music CD's. I still rarely buy a book even though I've added one more bookcase. I read mostly fiction or memoirs from the library at the rate of one/week. One bookcase holds predominantly political books and the other fiction by Diana Gabaldon. Yes, I'm an Outlander fan--and I've read the series several times--but to look at the amount of space devoted to books in my house I doubt you'd guess that I spend four or five hours/day reading, or that most of what I read is fiction.