Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me  but that of books most of all

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all. (William Dean Howells)