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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.

Re: Free Programing Books

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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.

Nice!

Taleb calls it the anti-library

Re: Free Programing Books

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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.

do pdfs count?

    % mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l
       11116
(2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)

Re: Free Programing Books

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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.

Nice! Taleb calls it the anti-library

Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Taleb calls it the anti-library

Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book

Research tool!

Re: Free Programing Books

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! Taleb calls it the anti-library

Spiritually different intention, but both yield lots of unread material at hand. The parent's is "bought with best intentions" but letting it pile up despite that intention, Taleb's is purposefully accumulating material that you don't intend to read unless a future you finds it helpful to explore that book

This is what I do. When I see a free PDF that seems well written, or was suggested to me, I save it in the bucket “maybe someday I might need that” but l know I will 99% never read. My experience is that it is useful. At least 10 books that were deep in that bucket were useful for me, and ended reading them. I must have 10000 though.

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Tsundoku (積ん読) is the phenomenon of acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in a home without reading them. The term is also used to refer to unread books on a bookshelf meant for reading later.

do pdfs count? % mdfind -onlyin ~ kind:pdf |wc -l 11116 (2k of those are in my directory of github checkouts and there are duplicates in there.)

They totally do! And epub, mobi, djvu...

    prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.pdf" | wc -l
    18952
    prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.epub" | wc -l
    2385
    prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.djvu" | wc -l
    1384
    prhodes@troubadour:~/Downloads/pdfs$ find . -name "*.mobi" | wc -l
    125

(There are definitely duplicates in those, FWIW)
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