surely the only time this has ever happened

Somehow I left London without purchasing even one book while there. There’s no chance that’s ever happened before. Not that I wasn’t tempted on a number of occasions, but my flat in Cairo is overflowing with books already. And besides, why am I not already in migration towards electronic books? I’m not yet convinced that the note-taking technology is convenient enough; it may be a few years before it’s truly just as easy to read a book electronically as on paper. But I don’t see why I should spend the rest of my life encumbered by however many paper books it is that I now own– 1500, somewhere around there. With a very small number of sentimental exceptions, I’d happily toss them all in a recycling bin if I could get electronic replacements and actually had a way to take serviceable notes on the e-versions.

[ADDENDUM: No sooner had I posted this than I realized it was a false post. I did in fact buy one book, and had simply forgotten about it.]