Nothing beats the feeling of opening a new book, or an old favourite, and launching yourself into the first words.
All readers feel that buzz, but it’s something special when you have a real book in your hands, smooth down the page and crack the spine for the first time.
It may be old fashioned, clunky and expensive, but it certainly beats swiping left like some literary dating app.
And with many bookshops announcing that sales of books are rising, phoenix like, out of the ashes of the Kindle, it seems more and more of us are recognising that.
Whether you keep your pages cleanly pristine, or turn corners and scribble on the flyleaf, here’s 17 things only… Read the full story