Shelf-respect: books you honor with shelf-space but don’t seriously mean to read. What are yours? Especially recent ones.
Usual suspects: Tufte, Knuth, Shakespeare, Rumi, Piketty, Bratton, Wolfram, Bible
It isn’t signaling, anti-library, or aspiration. It’s...idolatry?
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(jk i've read them all and some that aren't there)
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Yeah I think Christopher Alexander gets read if owned at all
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yeah the shelf directly beneath is closer to what you're talking about
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Your bookshelf looks very classy, with fine volumes. Mine looks like crap. Starting with the ikea bookshelves themselves.
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that bookshelf is poached from gf's mom's mudroom; it's made out of actual wood but that's about the most you can say about it
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