Eye Candy for Bookworms

Sylvia at Classical Bookworm has a saliva-inducing photo of Alberto Manguel's library on her blog. Take a look.

What is it about a room full of books that transports me to such ecstatic heights? I have enough books in my own home to be buried alive beneath them, yet still my eyes are drawn inevitably toward the next full shelf.

Here's my contribution to Bookworm's Eye Candy:

The Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Bookstore.