1. dino moxi      dino moxi edited the summary of The Man Who
Loved Books Too Much Monday, July 4, 2011.      • The Man Who
Loved Books Too Much, Is a True Story of a Thief, a Detective,
and a World of Literary Obsession.       The man is John Gilkey,
a serial stealer of books who, in one six-month period alone,
purloined $100,000 worth of rare titles, normally by paying with
dud cheques or using credit card numbers from receipts he
acquired while working at Saks in San Francisco; the goal is to
assemble "a vast rare books collection <as> the ultimate
expression of his identity", and having to steal them only adds
to the sport. His would-be nemesis is Ken Sanders, an irascible
dealer who as security chief for a booksellers' body becomes a
self-styled "bibliodick", seeing Gilkey as Moriarty to his
Holmes; shuttling between them enables the author to detail
Gilkey's four-year thieving spree and trace how Sanders finally
got his man. Bartlett's model is clearly Susan Orlean's The
Orchid Thief, another study of o