Bookmobile Memory

"When I was very young I lived in a remote village on the edge of an English moorland. Every week, a mobile library would stop near my house, and I would step up through the back door of a large van to find its carpeted interior lined with bookshelves. Anything one borrowed could be kept for seven days and then returned or exchanged for fresh lendings. (If I live to see retirement, I would quite like to be the driver of such a vehicle, bringing books to eager young readers like a Librarian in the Rye.)"--Christopher Hitchens, The Best American Essays 2010