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  1. Jul 2023
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    Perspective | Paperback or hardcover? Used or new? Let’s talk about our book habits.
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    1. chrisaldrich 29 Jul 2023
      To paraphrase Gibbon on the Roman Emperor Gordian’s 22 acknowledged concubines, my books are for use, not ostentation.
      Edward Gibbon Gordian ostentatious book owning books as wallpaper books as commodities concubines
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  3. Apr 2022
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    Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
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    1. chrisaldrich 08 Apr 2022
      The moralist critique of ostentatious book owning articulated by Seneca in the first century CE was at the core of Sebastian Brant’s complaints in his Ship of Fools (1494).19

      Compare this idea to the recent descriptions of modern homes using books solely for decoration or simply as "wallpaper".

      ostentatious book owning Seneca Sebastian Brant Ship of Fools books as wallpaper tsundoku
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