What an inspiring post! I love books! Unfortunately many of mine are still in boxes after a major move and while I'm trying to fix this more than 300 year old house... glad there is finally light at the end of the tunnel :-)
You writing about organizing your books reminds me of an encounter a long time ago. Even as a teenager I had a fair amount of books already. When I visited a girlfriend in her house the fist time, I noticed that she had a full book shelf too. To my big surprise however, I quickly noticed, that she didn't have a single book with even one picture in it. Whereas I had none without pictures... the relationship was doomed ;-)
Audiobooks have become so important form me. I hardly ever paint, without... listening (?) to one.. must be one of those language things again, I had no clue one could actually "read" those too 🤔
Fantastic! Another audiobook lover for the list. It feels like I'm forming a whole new group here!
Do you also find then, that certain books become associated with a work of art? Say, you see the book again, or someone makes mention of it you are immediately transported to an exact time/place which is totally irrelevant to the book but inextricably linked to when you "read" it - with a specific "illustration"? This seems to work less so for me when I am reading a print book, maybe because one is less mobile (I walk a lot around town to audiobooks). There are now traffic lights in Madame Bovary!