"Nicholas Basbanes is the Pied Piper of bibliophiles. After A Splendor of Letters, A Gentle Madness, Patience & Fortitude and Among the Gently Mad, there is perhaps no other modern American writer who has as thoroughly explored the world of the book."

"Now, with Every Book its Reader, he rounds out his quintet with a work that rummages about for the most dedicated of the "gently disturbed," burrows into their underground caverns, and pictures them live, up close and personal, rooting for words in the wormholes of history."

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