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sentientslugtoday at 5:52 AM1 replyview on HN

What are you buying ungodly numbers of books for? To read them?


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1313ed01today at 10:52 AM

I am not gp, but I like to have a nice collection of unread books to browse and pick from, not (to almost quote someone, from my vague memory) "shelves full of books to impress others with what I have already read".

Kind of like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilibrary