The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?” and the others — a very small minority — who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books.
Nassim Taleb
Hmm. This would mean, I think, that the utility of a large library is just the removal of the delay between needing some information and having it. But how valuable that is depends on what that delay tends to be - and if you don’t often need information only contained in books in a far off library, that’s not very much.
Exactly. My library consists of books I haven’t read but will when the need arises, and books I have read and will either re-read or recommend to others. What’s the point of just keeping books you’ve already read?
This is brilliant. I need it tatted on my ribs.
This is beautiful
Also my Steam library every summer and winter sale.
Also my Jellyfin library with adding endless TV shows and movies.
But this 13-year-old game that’s probably getting a remaster announced next year is only $4.99!
“I’m gonna lose money if I don’t buy this game that I’ll never play while it’s on sale”
I resisted this summer and I was very proud of myself
This show was so good and I can’t get anyone to watch it.
Bout to make a requirement to date or befriend me is watch this show
You can’t get me to watch it if you don’t say which show.
Pen15 on Hulu.
You’re supposed to read books?
Who has time for that? Do you know how many books i bring home every time I’m at a second hand/thrift/etc store?
I don’t buy books anymore. I just read old ones off anna’s.
50/50 for me. There are a lot of older cheap books around my area and I find good books for not much money. Love some book thrifting
I’m not lazy, I’m practicing tsundoku
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tsundoku
Hurray, I learned a new word!
Pen15?
Pen island .com
Oh lol I did not catch this and wasnt aware this was like a show or something!
Pen 15 just made me think of elementary school
That’s how my Steam games feel.
My unfinished projects, watching me as start new projects
Yeah, my 8-bit breadboard computer (aka clock module) is really jealous of my embroidery, which is jealous of my hema gear, which is jealous of my…
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