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I own 28,000 books – here's what I've learned

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The article addresses this

The shelves themselves are a history of optimism. The first ones were beautiful — solid oak, custom-built, spaced to accommodate the quartos and folios that seemed, at the time, to represent the future shape of the collection. They were expensive, and they filled up in eighteen months. The second wave was IKEA Billy bookcases, deployed with the pragmatism of a military logistics officer: cheap, modular, immediately available, and — this is their great virtue — exactly 28 centimetres deep, which accommodates 95% of octavos and all paperbacks. The third wave was industrial steel shelving in the basement, the kind used in warehouses. It is ugly. It holds a lot of books. At a certain point in a collector's life, capacity trumps aesthetics.

You can double-shelve (books in front of books), which hides half your collection behind the other half and makes finding anything an archaeological expedition. You can stack horizontally on top of vertical rows, which looks terrible and eventually causes the shelf to bow. You can put books in boxes, which solves the space problem by creating a different problem: you now own boxes of books instead of a library.

I have done all of these things. I am not recommending any of them.

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Why we're so sure our phones are listening

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I had never heard of it, and apparently nobody I knew who knew a lot more than I did about polymers had heard of it either.

Especially back then when personal data wasn't yet flying around at high speed all the time, and it was easier to figure out who or what leaked what when and where.

Guessing the leak was from one of these people. Reminds me of the Mr Robot episode when theyre trying to break into steel mountain looking at a photo of the front door trying to figure out how to break into steel mountain. The main character remarks theres 5-6 vulnerabilities right there referring to the people entering and leaving the building