Also my Steam library every summer and winter sale.
I resisted this summer and I was very proud of myself
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”
Also my Jellyfin library with adding endless TV shows and movies.
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
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?
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.
The quote’s a bit dated. It’s pre-internet thinking. It’s aimed at people who want to be continually learning something.
Delays getting a book from some other library can be arbitrarily long depending on which book you need, even if the library is close.
Yeah for sure. But I think also it’s only relevant for people who spend so much of their time researching stuff that those delays become a bottleneck to something. Most people can go and do something else while waiting for a library book to be transferred - or while waiting for an opportunity to buy a book with information they want. Maybe Umberto Eco was so frequently held up by this that it made sense for him. Or maybe hoarding literature was indeed a status symbol for him and he just had a convincing story for why it was actually practical.
This is brilliant. I need it tatted on my ribs.
This is beautiful
I’m not lazy, I’m practicing tsundoku
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tsundoku
Hurray, I learned a new word!
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
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
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?
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…
yadda yadda yadda…
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.
That’s how my Steam games feel.
