The Featherston Booktown Podcast

The Dilemma of a Bibliophile

Featherston Booktown

Book collecting is variously described as a passion, an obsession and even a disease. Bookselling the same. Bookseller Ruth Shaw (Bookshop Dogs) and book collector Tony Eyre (The Book Collector) talked about the affliction/gift of bibliophilia, where it’s taken them in their lives and the dilemma of where to put all the books. Fellow bibliophile and Masterton bookseller David Hedley was in the chair.

This episode was recorded at the 2024 Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival.

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