Bookshelves as mental constructs

Remembering what you read by Richard Griffiths “I suspect the memory-aiding features of the bookshelf itself are qualitatively different from those of a plain list of the books in that bookshelf. The book shelves are a kind of ‘memory palace’ for the books themselves. In fact this realisation is quite important to me. It might explain why I get frustrated when someone reorganises these books: they’re literally reorganising my memory.” + Excerpt from a review of Hyperobjects by willszal “Near the end of the book, Morton comments that pretty much everything is a hyperobject if you look at it in its fullness. I’ve been doing this for years. One example I like is to meditate on a bookcase. Each book was written by a different person in a different place. The wood for the paper and petroleum for the ink came from all over the country and the world. The technologies involved in printing the books involved numerous people. And then there’s the time and thought and observation that went into…