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There’s a different answer for every specific outburst of shelf rage, but at the heart of it, I think, is something simple and personal and sometimes hard to say: because people care so much about their books, and because we can be really bad at remembering that another person’s choices have nothing to do with our own. Some of us are more sentimental than others; some identify more with fictional characters than others; some don’t know how to explain exactly how it is that sometimes a book slips under our