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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 17:08:30 UTC Robert McNees

   A remake of “The Trouble with Tribbles” but it’s about my to-read pile.

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 17:21:10 UTC Robert McNees

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     • Marty Coote

     @martycoote This is a truly lovely thought. Thank you!

   • Marty Coote (martycoote@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 17:21:11 UTC Marty Coote

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     @mcnees found a useful framing a while back. The idea is to think less about the books you have to read as a to read pile and more like a wine cellar, where your laying books down to pair with the right moment.

   • sdbbp (sdbbp@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 18:04:48 UTC sdbbp

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     @mcnees https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/02/on-unread-books/ But I acknowledge that there is still a subset of "no, really, I ought to read these soon".

   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 19:33:25 UTC Robert McNees

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     “I hold the buying of more books than one can peradventure read, as nothing less than the soul’s reaching towards infinity; which is the only thing that raises us above the beasts that perish”

     — Edward Newton, “A Magnificent Farce”