In his 1896 guide to reading, Books & Culture, Hamilton Wright Mabie observed that "To love a book is to invite an intimacy with it which opens the way to its heart …. One who loves books, like one who loves a particular bit of a country, is always eager to make others see what he sees." Alan Jacobs is one such lover of books, and in The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction, he helps us see what he sees—or, more precisely, he helps us see how he sees books.
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