Quoth bookslut:

[madbaker]

"John Gibbens tours the town-as-used-bookstore Hay-on-Wye, an activity that would leave me destitute and homeless, wandering around the bookstores forever, selling my blood plasma for more books."

I can't improve on that.
"I'm not a bibliophile; I'm a bibliophiliac. When I enter a bookstore, my wallet bleeds." -metageek