There’s a unique magic in the physical bookshelf. It acts as a spatial memory palace where a spine or a colour can trigger a flood of recollection. ‘Remembering What you Read’ looks at why reorganising a library feels like reorganising a mind, and what it really means to be “well-read” in this time of digital summaries and ephemeral content.

“The book shelves are a kind of ‘memory palace’ for the books themselves. In fact this realisation is quite important to me.”

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@davoh Glad to see you’re still posting shelfies. I imagine Abie Warburg might approve. It was said of his library: ‘Warburg had chosen and arranged the books like stones from a mosaic of which he had the pattern in his mind.’