Sanders lives life full of books (Salt Lake Tribune)
Posted by Bobby Kuechenmeister on October 13, 2006 
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Comments(4) No, Sanders has full-fledged bibliomania. The bookstore owner exhibits all the classic symptoms of the disorder listed by Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: buying “multiple copies of the same book and [the] accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use.” -Lynda Percival
[Joel Pace, an undergraduate mentor and friend of mine, experiences bibliomania often and frequently as he collects rare books for his research with Wordsworth and Transatlantic Romanticism. I remember him smelling his books and that seemed odd to me because I cannot smell. BK]
category: Bibliography, Literacy, Popular Culture
You can’t smell? Or you won’t!
And who said bibliomania is an illness. I think it’s an entirely healthy attitude. It’s my department’s fault that they assumed I would need one paltry bookshelf…one!
No, I seriously cannot smell. I only remember smelling two things: burning sulfur and cigarette smoke, but those need to be right under my nose in front of my face or I cannot tell.
Joel is allocated two bookshelves in his office with no back on them, so books line both sides. His collection overflows from his office into his apartment over to his parents’ home in Providence, Rhode Island, and probably beyond.