Reading The Ignorant Book Collector | Alexandria
Read The Ignorant Book Collector by Lucian. Amassing books without reading them - Lucian skewers this timeless form of status-seeking in "The Ignorant Book Collector," mocking a wealthy man who buys scrolls purely for show. His sharp satire exposes how cultural posturing hasn't changed: today's unread Kindle libraries and carefully curated bookshelves prove his point that we still confuse owning wisdom with possessing it.