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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      I find I don’t enjoy review-summaries unless I have a sense of why the reviewer is reading, what their own larger project is. If their larger project is just something like “read 100 books on X” I get bored. That shtick was interesting 5 years ago.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      This is one of my “I’m probably the asshole here” opinions

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      Looks like I last did a review/summary myself in 2011. I think I just got bored of doing these even when they are inline with my projects. I don’t have the requisite community service mentality.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/category/bookreviews/page/2/ …

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      Yeah definitely feel like an asshole posting this thread especially since I drafted off the benefits of writing about books back when there were far fewer people doing it and they had way more cachet than they do today.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      In 2009 nobody ever said of a book, “this should be a thread at best”. Even the fluffiest faddish business book was given benefit of doubt of having a decent essay’s worth of content to it. Books meant something beyond just being an intellectual calling card for “thought leaders”

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      I think the book as a mainstream medium is possibly dead. Now new books are of the following types: 1. Personal brand calling card 2. Scholarly specialist things 3. B2B middleware for movies/TV, incidentally also read by nerds 4. Reactionary memberberries for waldenponders

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Tor Nelson

      Yep books as decor, though that’s always been the case to a degree https://twitter.com/ecceplusultra/status/1211515337595768833?s=21 …https://twitter.com/ecceplusultra/status/1211515337595768833 …

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      👆 books as decor
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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 29 Dec 2019
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      I think all the paper-book supremacists gloating at the plateauing of ebooks are misreading what’s happened. It’s not that p-books are fighting back, it’s that blogs etc are undermining both now. The p-book resurgence is a transient domestic cozy reactionary thing. Doomed.

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    9. Brendan Schlagel‏ @schlagetown 30 Dec 2019
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      I don't think this is quite true 😆 Ebook plateau partly due to weird econ stuff but also paper books = aesthetically preferable *and* resilient tech superior to ebooks in many ways (I'm no pbook supremacist, read lots on kindle too & all for new book forms/tech!)

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Dec 2019
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      I think the simpler explanation is publisher resistance to amazon's pricing dominance in ebooks. The aesthetic preference fits into my case 4 (waldenponding memberberries).

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 30 Dec 2019
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      The resilience point I believe to be way overstated: people simply don't care. They're willing to risk loss of 99% of books. It's like activists think people care about privacy way more than they actually do. Whatever the actual risks, people act like recoverability will be easy.

      10:45 AM - 30 Dec 2019
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