DEAR MISS MANNERS: Over the years, my husband and I have collected a nice variety of books, which we keep in several large bookcases in our small living room. I refer to some of them regularly, as they are reference books. Others are old classics, some are books from my childhood, and one shelf is full of handwritten personal journals spanning the past 30 years. When guests visit, sometimes they browse the shelves and help themselves to our books to leaf through them. Is this appropriate behavior? I would not presume to help myself uninvited to the books in someone else’s home, especially pers…
