By qwerrie on Skatehive
This is a post to go with monthly challenge from #Hive #Collectors community. BOOKS!!! I've already touched this topic; more about my library in other posts here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Its always a pleasure for me to talk about books — I can look at it from various points of view: evaluating book's layout and printed quality, whether the design is beautiful or lame, whether this book deserves to eternity or whether it would be better it never saw the light of day, etc etc etc. I was born and raised in the USSR (known as "the most reading country in the world"); those who didn't live there during the late Brezhnev era may be surprised, but it's a fact: despite the multi-million book print runs and the enormous amount of literature produced, good books were in short supply; there was never enough for those who wanted to buy, the capitalist law of "supply and demand" didn't apply here. I try to explain why I developed a passion for books from my young age. So, from my teenage years I read and co