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  1. Antilibrary

    An antilibrary is a collection of books that are owned but have not yet been read. The term was coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The concept it describes has been compared to the Japanese tsundoku. Wikipedia

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  2. themarginalian.org

    Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary. Tsudonku: Japanese for leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other unread books. Illustration by Ella Frances Sanders from Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World.
  3. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary. A little later, Taleb writes: We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. So this tendency to offend Eco's library sensibility by focusing on the known is a human bias that extends to ...
  4. nesslabs.com

    An antilibrary is a reminder of everything we don't know. By expanding our awareness of unknown unknowns, an antilibrary may even be an antidote to the Dunning-Kruger effect, where we tend to overestimate the extent of our knowledge. Whether in a private or a public library, being surrounded by books we haven't read yet—in the case of ...
  5. openculture.com

    "The antilibrary's val­ue stems from how it chal­lenges our self-esti­ma­tion by pro­vid­ing a con­stant, nig­gling reminder of all we don't know," writes Big Think's Kevin Dick­in­son. "The titles lin­ing my own home remind me that I know lit­tle to noth­ing about cryp­tog­ra­phy, the evo­lu­tion of feath­ers ...
  6. conversationagent.com

    Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary. We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. So this tendency to offend Eco's library sensibility by focusing on the known is a human bias that extends to our mental operations.
  7. alonewithbooks.com

    Mar 14, 2023Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in The Black Swan, refers to this as an 'antilibrary.' He states that one's library should contain as many books as you haven't read as those as you have. Money permitting of course. The idea of the antilibrary is simple. If you read more books, the perimeter of your knowledge will increase. However, there is a ...
  8. wangyip.medium.com

    The antilibrary is a different way of thinking about those unread books. For me, I see those unread books as "I'm not ready for those books yet in my life, but one day, I will." Have you heard that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear? Well, when you are ready for the knowledge of that book, your motivation to read and ...
  9. flashbak.com

    Apr 18, 2023Taleb called it the 'antilibrary', coining the term in his book The Black Swan: "Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there.

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