Everyone who knows me is aware of my little problem with acquiring books. I will buy a book before anything — anything — else. In spite of this addiction, I am also a heavy library user, both for research and for pleasure reading. One of the joys of library reading is the accessibility of old books — not just current best-sellers. Case in point: I’ve somehow managed to never read ‘The Alchemist’ before now, but remedied that this year. I thought I might mark the end of 2019 b