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Read our privacy notice . With the growing adoration for audiobooks and Kindles, physical literature has seen a downturn in popularity. Yet there remains a select group of people, us included, who can’t bear to relinquish the smell of crisp, printed pages and the satisfying feeling of closing a hefty, 1,000-page book after finally finishing it.
Rising global temperatures and overflowing landfills make shopping sustainably more important than ever, which means that filling our bookshelves with brand-new editions will not only negatively affect our bank accounts, but the environment too. After all, there are only so many books you can honestly declare that you’ll re-read at some stage in your life, making housing a miniature library within the walls of your home more of a vanity project than anything else. That being said, we can understand the desire to have a chic and oh-so-intellectual Zoom background during those all-important work meetings.
So, how does one reconcile the desire to own physical, aesthetically pleasing literature without harming the environment? The answer is simple, and it’s all about purchasing from the hundreds of millions of books already in circulation. Just like the second-hand fashion revolu.
