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Originally Posted by stumped
i am still missing the explanation of how sealbeater will ever manage to actually read that two million book collection
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I believe I said the following:
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Originally Posted by sealbeater
As for finding the time, I subscribe to the "anti-library" approach.
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for the google impaired:
“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 don’t 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 menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
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Originally Posted by stumped
maybe he reads VERY VERY fast, or maybe he has a severe case of undiagnosed kleptomania. my money is on the latter.
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Your money would be lost. I haven't stolen a book since...jr high? I do however, read very very fast and have ways of reading even faster.
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Originally Posted by stumped
I used to have a well paid job also, but paying for 2 million books at say $5 per book is ten million dollars. not something your average very well paid job can fund.
so I allege piracy, also.
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I've been well paid and collecting books for a long long time.
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Originally Posted by stumped
and a final debunk - from post 9- "10k books is not a even a 1/3rd of what is on my e-reader". Seriously? what mass produced e-reader handles 30k books. Is this one he built in his spare time, while not reading his 2 million books ?
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Final debunk? What have you debunked previously?
As for what mass produced e-reader handles 30k books, my Onyx. There's a thread in the Onyx forum about it.