About the book: 1966 / I’ll just talk about meetings with books - my personal meetings, sometimes pleasing, sometimes disappointing, but always in the same or to some other degree, revealed a lot that not a single bibliographer in the world knows about, because this is YOUR personal meeting. We must also talk about how the passion for collecting books is born... “Books, like friends, must be chosen deeply, according to spiritual inclination, remembering that a book is characterized by a special constancy: a favorite book will never change and will return exactly at that moment , when a person especially needs support,” writes V.L. in the article for his book. Lidin. Notes from a book lover are devoted to the history of books, book collectors and publishers, reading and selection of literature, the attitude of great Russian writers to books, and much more..