book collecting championships

Winners of the 2007 Collegiate Book Collecting Championship

I didn’t know there was such a thing, but it seems there are few of these competitions, the aim of which is to encourage the use of books and to highlight their value in an increasingly electronic world. The winners are chosen on the basis of “intelligence and originality of the collection and the evidence that the books were sought out and not simply accumulated.”

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