Name: Fake books.
Age: Not as old as you would immediately think.
Appearance: Like books, but – get this – fake.
Is this about ghostwriters? No, it’s worse. Have you ever visited someone’s house and seen acres and acres of books spread across their beautiful floor-to-ceiling bookcase?
Yes. And have you ever reached up to pull out an interesting looking tome, only to find that it is actually just a faux-aged spine printed on an empty cardboard box, placed there because the owner wants to look better-read than they are?
No, because that would be genuinely psychopathic. It happens more than you would imagine. According to a recent New York Times article, the rise
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