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I have never had the need to lie about having read a book. Except for school, of course ;-)
Back then, the internet wasn't even a glimmer in the eye of SciFi authors, so I had to read the vast majority of those compulsory reading assignments anyway. At least enough to write an essay and to be able to participate in discussion in class.
Recently I have seen [or read?] an interview with a clueless journalist telling us how worthless e-books and e-book readers are, and she said something like: "This is an example of book I want to put on my bookshelf when I finish reading it, so I could show how clever I am" ... Grrrrrrr
If I *ever* wanted to use this way to impress people, I would put "Mastering Regular Expressions", "Unix shell scripts and tools" on my bookshelf ;-)
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