Thinking is even harder than reading so we’re gratified to hear that Strand Bookstore in NYC has a service by which the image-conscious can purchase “Books By The Foot.”

Our personal favorite is the “Foreign Language Antique Leather” collection. It’s cheaper than the “top shelf” leather books because it’s “the same beautiful antique leather books as above with books mostly in French, Spanish, and German.”

Perfect for the stingy polyglot?

Get ready to repeat the following: “No, I don’t speak French, those were my great-great grandmothers. Or something.”

Some of the collections do seem kinda neat, however. We love books.

Books By The Foot [BuzzFeed]

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