Quote of the day, for all of us self-congratulatory knowledge workers, from Jacob Heilbrunn’s review of Hitler’s Private Library: The Books that Shaped his Life in the Jan. 4 NYT Review of Books:

While being a bookworm may not be a precondition for becoming a mass murderer, it’s certainly no impediment. Stalin, too, was an avid reader, boasting a library of 20,000 volumes.