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Alexander Chancellor: The Kindle is marvellous, but it cannot satisfy an addiction to books

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

28 September 2013

9:00 AM

My brother John’s great book sale, about which I wrote on this page a couple of weeks ago, finally took place at Stoke Park last weekend, and it went far better than I had anticipated. Admittedly, I had expected little. For a while I had even feared catastrophe. John, who is 86 and in poor health, seemed to think that he alone could sort out and price some 6,000 books in three weeks, even though he liked to stop and read them as he went along.

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