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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Did you try and only get 1/10th of the way through too?
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