Too many books!

[ljwrites]

An antilibrary is a powerful reminder of your limitations — the vast quantity of things you don’t know, half-know, or will one day realize you’re wrong about. By living with that reminder daily you can nudge yourself toward the kind of intellectual humility that improves decision-making and drives learning.

Why you should surround yourself with more books than you'll ever have time to read is a reassuring read, but nobody tell my husband. It's been a contention between us for years that he has far too many books (and so do I tbh), and I don't want to validate him.

Comments

[lb_lee]

Public libraries are godly and I am so glad they exist.

I admit, I don't buy ebooks that have DRM. I mean, jeez, what if I end up reading that ebook with my 2005 laptop because I'm out in the sticks? They don't seriously expect me to ONLY read an ebook with my desktop in my workstation, do they? But that's the only computer I have that can access the internet. (I mean I guess my phone can, but why would I read an ebook on my phone only? That's awful.)

Is that what Brain Pickings is? I'd never heard of them. But I admit a knee-jerk distrust of anyone who claims doing any random thing proves you're more enlightened. Some people surely have a million books as exercises in intellectual humility. Others own a million books because they plan to sell them off as collectible commodities, and others own a million books because they are hoarders.

--Rogan

[ljwrites]

DRM is basically the devil that's based on the idea that consumers should not be given ownership and control over content they paid for with their own money and should be on perpetual rental instead.

Brain Pickings is like the online version of Reader's Digest that gives bite-sized summaries of content, and much like RD in its heyday it tends to be lightweight, feel-good pseudointellectual fluff. (And I say this as someone who read RD avidly when younger.)