A twist on various favorite author/book prompt games is to assume good compression and summarization. Example if you had 100 standard-sized books (and 1 book = 20 good Wikipedia glosses), how much would you allocate to actual books? Respond with glimpses of your compressions.
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Glimpses of mine:
- HHG down to 1 volume
- Shakespeare = 1 volume of quotes
- All philosophy = 1 summary volume
- Top 3 Christie mysteries, uncompressed
- Most social/cultural/humanities theorizing summarized at “mostly harmless” level
- 50 books worth of Wikipedia summaries
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Isn't this counterintuitive to the existence of material as recreational content?
Doesn't it reduce their existence to being sheer tools used as a means to an end that is not frivolous in nature?
Rhetorically assuming of course, that frivolity is a virtue.
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Hmmm...
In that case..
HP 1-7 is half a book I guess 😂
Most content save for dictionaries Can be compressed if I am to think along those lines.

