On the contrary. I love old books, the older the better. There is something about the feel of an ancient volume that may not have been read for a hundred years or so that I just love.
Here is an absolutely true story. I went to an estate auction to pick up some old books, but there was so much foot traffic they had a "lottery system" for getting in the joint. So while I waited for my turn I browsed the garage, where old books of much lesser quality were boxed. I was just killing time flipping pages (I like to find old bookmarks and the occasional old money in books.) In the flyleaf of an old psalm book I found a handwritten letter of about six pages, dated I think 1894. As I read the note, which was apparently from a teenaged girl to her distant friend/cousin or something, I began to realize she was detailing a promised account of the loss of her virginity. The story concerned a much older man staying at her mother's boarding house, whom this Lolita seduced with the intent of losing her flower to him.
The language of the letter, the descriptions of the entire act, were so hilarious I was laughing out loud in the garage. Of course I bought it, I think for a dollar or so, with the pages secreted inside, and I still have them today.
I'm not sure where I put them, but I will look for them and transcribe them on the board in their entirety.
But to answer your question, I will say that I have found so many cool things in old books over the years that I am almost addicted to buying them...
