One of the things I had always admired about my husband when we first met, was his pursuit of knowledge, if he didn't know the answer to something he would try to find out immediately and if you didn't he would certainly oblige and share his ideas-fact or fiction with you (he still has an answer for most things, they aren't always right but he does anyway). This was way before phones had data plans, everyone had an iphone and "google" (see "to google") became a verb. He was one of those students in graduate school that bought every book on the course reading lists, both required and recommended (and at an ivy league architecture graduate school that really adds up!)
Anyway, it was very inspiring (and then became, just a way of life) to have access to books during that time, to be able to draw thoughts and stimulate ideas from flipping through the books we had amassed in our tiny apartment. Its a very different experience from searching for something online and receiving a bombardment of "answers" within seconds. Moving day was never fun but now we have a library in our basement filled with books from many years and although the majority of them are architecture- related books that I am familiar with, its nice to go down there and just flip through a book and learn something at your own pace.
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