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David Lees (David_lees)
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Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.248.60.181
Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 11:27 pm:   

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vellichor

n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.
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Des (Des)
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Registered: 09-2010
Posted From: 81.156.5.180
Posted on Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 08:16 am:   

Lovely definition. Thanks.

Do ebooks have an equivalent to 'vellichor', I wonder?
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David Lees (David_lees)
Username: David_lees

Registered: 12-2011
Posted From: 176.248.60.181
Posted on Friday, June 27, 2014 - 05:13 pm:   

I occasionally have wonderful dreams where I'm in a used bookshop - a proper, cramped, chaotic one with books piled up everywhere - and every single volume I take off a shelf and look at is some fascinating old fantasy or horror novel I'd never heard of before and absolutely have to buy.

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