As I am cleaning bookshelves in the SRR, the rows of books remind me of the rows of trees I saw when I was foraging at the weekend. I went to forage for fungus (wild mushrooms really), then I realised that books can be a habitat for certain fungus as well. Mushrooms are the fruit bodies which spread the spores of fungus and their greater parts are invisible everywhere, so books can also be a habitat of the ‘invisible biodiversity’. Old books grow mould if they are untouched. Living woods turn into a static form of paper, yet they could return to a living form and could also coexist with fungus eventually. In this way, bookshelves are de facto forests.
Fungus and books
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