@paulg
Mr. Graham how do you find good books to read?
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Why can't we recreate visiting used bookshop experience online? Or can we?
If you could, that would be a startup I'd sign up for in a second. But you'd have to get a lot of details right. There are clues in bindings, for example. (You can in fact judge a book by its cover, among other things.)
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perhaps you should donate significantly to the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/internetarchivebooks …
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What clues?
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Do you think a used bookshop is the ideal form of personalized book discovery that could exist digitally? Seems like something much better could exist onlinehttps://link.medium.com/Fa0ts8D6B3
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I don't know for sure, but there are a lot of babies in used bookshops that I can imagine getting thrown out with the bathwater by someone clueless (= someone who hasn't spent hundreds of hours in used bookshops) trying to make something "better."
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That could be an interesting essay topic, because it seems quite unintuitive (to me, anyway). I’d have imagined that being in a used book store would correlate with (past) popularity not necessarily quality. Similar for how used the book itself is.
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And how do you capture the smell and feel of a bookstore? Or the joy of browsing? Surfing is not the same. Much different texture!
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