Books are coming home....

Well that's another West Kent Book Fair out of the way! It went alright at Tonbridge School on Sunday but, as one regular commenter on this blog mentioned, quite a few people clearly stayed at home to make good use of a dry Sunday to get some gardening and home maintenance done. It always slightly surprises me that out of the 2 million or so people in West Kent, only a few hundred turn up for the fair. Having said that it always seems to be the right few hundred people, mainly book collectors. They will travel far and wide whatever the weather in search of those illustrious first editions. Book collecting is not a bad idea in the current economic climate either; why put your money in a bank to earn half a percent interest, if you're luck, when you can enjoy hunting for and then owning some rare and beautiful, cloth and leather bound volumes which, more often than not, appreciate in value quite significantly over the years. Rare books don't become less scarce with time do they? Have I convinced you to put your money in books and to come along to the next book fair in October? Or in the meantime there's always a visit to Mr. Books in Bank Street! To coin a phrase from the famous football song: after 10 years of internet books are definitely coming home...