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I'm here today with Thatcher Wine, who's the co-author with Elizabeth Lane, of For the

Love of Books, Designing and Curating a Home Library.

Thatcher is the founder of Juniper Books, a company that works with book lovers, homeowners,

and designers to create custom libraries, a graduate of Dartmouth College with a degree in history and art history. Thatcher lives in Boulder, Colorado, although he's originally from New York. Welcome, Thatcher. Thanks for coming on, Momston. Have time to read books. Thanks so much for having me here. This is perfect because you're probably a bigger, if not as big a book lover as me.

So this is like such a pleasure to talk to somebody who, like, shares this passion for books. Your book for the love of books. Let's talk about it. What's it about? So it's for love of books, designing, and curating a home library. And it's all about books. So it's for book lovers, buy a book lover. It's all about, you know, both collecting books in your home for

their content as well as their beauty and displaying them in a way that really reflects who you are.

So tell me about founding Juniper Books, which is the company that you founded 18 years ago

and you still run. You are in the midst of this e-revolution of Kindle and all

this stuff and people were predicting the end of books altogether and here you were starting your

own publishing imprint essentially. Tell me about that whole experience. Yeah and it wasn't,

it never set out to start a book business. And even when I started selling books, I didn't consider it to be a business, really.

I really considered it to be a hobby that I enjoyed, had fun, you know, going to estate sales, library sales, antique auctions, things like that,

coming home with a bunch of books, describing them, figuring out if they were first editions,

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