“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.” ― Will Thomas, Some Danger Involved   He was the first and the most committed bibliophile I met. We were posted in the same hospital. He was not a doctor, but as is known in the military medical fraternity, a non-technical officer. Till then, I owned very few books – mostly fiction and a smattering of volumes on Indian philosophy. Latter were so obscure that I had not read more than a few pages of any. A succession of events about this time changed the world of my reading. We bought our first personal computer. Within a few months, internet too arrived home. JK Rowling’s Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone was tremendously popular then, especially among children. My kids learned of a new mode of buying books – an online bookshop. I ordered the book at indiaplaza.in. A colleague lent me Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything . I read the book entra