The book industry is changing at digital speed. This compendium of more than three hundred quotations reminds us that centuries of treasured tradition are threatened by our current obsessions with e-books and other gadgets. "A room without books is a body without a soul." --Cicero "If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you." --William Gladstone "If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them. Let them be your friends." --Winston Churchill "There's something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own-learned, kind, knowledgeable, and human.

" --Nathan Pine, bookseller "Books deserve more than digital gas."--Bill Henderson, from the introduction.