You mistook the first thing that he wrote as the thing the entire essay was about, and you mistook the development of the first thing he wrote into his larger argument as repetitions of the first thing he wrote.
Not an essay on how cool it is to have books, or how pretentious it is to have books.
Respectfully, I disagree and I don’t believe this article is written well. An entire essay cannot stand in for a thesis statement, or at least not without disregarding the reader’s time.
I think what especially frustrates me about this article is that there are good portions. Justin makes some good points that would do well with another round of editing.
Not an essay on how cool it is to have books, or how pretentious it is to have books.