Word: bookdom
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Miss Hackett's accounting emphasizes that there is a Gutenberg Fallacy lurking in bookdom's galaxy. To begin with, something that looks like a book and is sold in a bookstore is not necessarily a book. It could be a nonbook, or as Miss Hackett would say, a "nonreading" book. A lifelong career woman in the book business, she thus distinguishes between reading books and nonreading books much as an alcoholic or a barman would describe bourbon and branch water as a drink and Metrecal as a non-drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category...
Last the perfunctory remarks on the appearance of the book, a sop to those cerberi of literature who never think of leaving their post on the outskirts of bookdom and opening a volume, but confine their admiration to the outsides of gaudy editions; these will be glad to know that the book is handsome to the view, while the reader will be pleased to find the binding solid and the type clear...
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