... library to borrower and back again; from family member to friend, col-league, and acquaintance; from hard copy to microlm, photocopier, and scanner; from garage sale to second-hand store and beyond, ... moments in which they’re treated either as generic stu or as hallowed objects, as well as the labor it takes to transform books from the one into the other. is is nothing other than the work of ... oil, steel, livestock, and other staples. On the other hand, there is the Marxist understanding of commodity, “a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”...