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Women will pick a fight about literally anything, it’s...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
if you had a real job you could justify the expense of buyin...
dull multi-colored step-uncle's house
  02/06/25
...
self-absorbed tan range
  02/06/25
Have a job and it’s my own money I’m spending
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
out a couple of the books
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
split between decades old conspiracyshit and rw side hustle ...
self-absorbed tan range
  02/06/25
None of the latter
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
This was the unread shelf a number of months ago it’s ...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
surprised by some of these, esp: https://en.wikipedia.org...
brindle orchestra pit
  02/06/25
Why does it surprise you?
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
spread dem houellebecqs out
Beady-eyed theatre giraffe
  02/06/25
thank, i've read like 4 or 5 of them so far, they are so sim...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
"blown out academic obsessed with sex" sounds l...
Buff Bearded Private Investor
  02/07/25
Platform was 180 but it's exactly my fear the other ones wil...
chrome slap-happy heaven
  02/07/25
George orwell collection of essays is 180, you should priori...
Provocative Dragon Market
  02/07/25
ty
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/07/25
Dat too many books
cowardly home
  02/06/25
(My wife)
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
...
Buff Bearded Private Investor
  02/06/25
...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
ATD
henna institution alpha
  02/06/25
can you rate this profile and book recommendations based on ...
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
Piranesi is viddy good. Borges-esque dreamscape of surreal i...
Mahogany famous landscape painting
  02/06/25
ordered ty
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
idk any of the others
Mahogany famous landscape painting
  02/06/25
...
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
i've heard of pirate enlightenment but only in a critical re...
Mahogany famous landscape painting
  02/07/25
i'm familiar with The Master and His Emissary and would like...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
ty out of interest would you theoretically use an app th...
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
yeah, theoretically, although this system would be easier fo...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
def be easier for ebooks but this is for personal libraries ...
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/06/25
...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
it's not always easy being a scholar, but you are in the rig...
Exciting School Clown
  02/06/25
...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
is your wife aware that you need books to write book reports...
Buff Bearded Private Investor
  02/06/25
she is not. i can't talk politics with her even slightly, s...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
...
ultramarine vibrant halford
  02/07/25
had to step away from marriage therapy today when she went o...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/do-i-own-too-many-books/
Salmon dashing spot
  02/06/25
great link thank
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/06/25
KEY TAKEAWAYS Many readers buy books with every intention o...
Khaki laughsome house kitty
  02/06/25
this makes me want to have even more books, absolutely
Exciting School Clown
  02/07/25
...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/07/25
...
Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm
  02/07/25
...
Salmon dashing spot
  02/07/25
that is a very small number of unread books
Galvanic hairless goal in life abode
  02/07/25
let's see yours
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/07/25
this type of shit contributed to my divorce. i was doing big...
ultramarine vibrant halford
  02/07/25
In terms of value Red Bull is shitty. It’s a good mixe...
fuchsia misunderstood university generalized bond
  02/07/25
idc if it was buying scratch off lotto tickets or just setti...
ultramarine vibrant halford
  02/07/25
need red bull to wash down your adderall
Buff Bearded Private Investor
  02/07/25
...
Brilliant insecure hall
  02/07/25
glass houses!
ultramarine vibrant halford
  02/07/25
C4 Ultra is great pre-workout but makes my skin crawl as a d...
Doobsian crusty milk
  02/07/25
the top degenerate energy drink of Patriots is Robust.
Galvanic hairless goal in life abode
  02/07/25
Bang tastes horrible man. Like Nyquil Red Bull has a flavor...
Mahogany famous landscape painting
  02/07/25
tuktuk baananana he read book too much no money
aquamarine histrionic legal warrant public bath
  02/07/25


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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:42 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

Women will pick a fight about literally anything, it’s unbelievable

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628188)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:42 AM
Author: dull multi-colored step-uncle's house

if you had a real job you could justify the expense of buying books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628195)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:43 AM
Author: self-absorbed tan range



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628198)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

Have a job and it’s my own money I’m spending

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628224)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:42 AM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm

out a couple of the books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628193)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:45 AM
Author: self-absorbed tan range

split between decades old conspiracyshit and rw side hustle forcememe jewslop

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628215)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:46 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

None of the latter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628227)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:45 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

This was the unread shelf a number of months ago it’s grown

https://i.ibb.co/XCqcrss/image0.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/hDtRZTN/image1.jpg

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628220)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:51 AM
Author: brindle orchestra pit

surprised by some of these, esp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Golgotha



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628267)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:52 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

Why does it surprise you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628274)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:33 PM
Author: Beady-eyed theatre giraffe

spread dem houellebecqs out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628601)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:35 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

thank, i've read like 4 or 5 of them so far, they are so similar in tone and content he just keeps doing the same thing over - blown out academic obsessed with sex - and over in a different setting, pretty crazy how well it worked for him

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628610)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: Buff Bearded Private Investor

"blown out academic obsessed with sex"

sounds like several xo poasters we know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632263)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:01 AM
Author: chrome slap-happy heaven

Platform was 180 but it's exactly my fear the other ones will be the same.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632433)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:54 AM
Author: Provocative Dragon Market

George orwell collection of essays is 180, you should prioritize it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632342)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632426)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:52 AM
Author: cowardly home

Dat too many books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628271)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 11:52 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

(My wife)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628275)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:26 PM
Author: Buff Bearded Private Investor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628563)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:14 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628488)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:17 PM
Author: henna institution alpha

ATD

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628499)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:25 PM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm

can you rate this profile and book recommendations based on your library for a personal library app I'm building on a 120-180 scale. please be critical on book recs.

Profile

A curious mind sifting through history's rubble, piecing together shards of fallen empires and forgotten philosophies to build kaleidoscopic theories in dimly lit libraries.

- Intellectual restlessness masquerading as focus

- Obsessed with institutional rot and its perfumed disguises

- Constantly tuning reality's dial between 'absurd' and 'apocalyptic'

- Secretly believes footnotes are where truth hides

Book Recs

- The Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

- Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia, by David Graeber

- The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott

- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

- The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628555)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:27 PM
Author: Mahogany famous landscape painting

Piranesi is viddy good. Borges-esque dreamscape of surreal imagery and descriptive, free-flowing language

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628569)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:29 PM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm

ordered ty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628582)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:33 PM
Author: Mahogany famous landscape painting

idk any of the others

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628602)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 3:39 PM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48629696)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 3:18 PM
Author: Mahogany famous landscape painting

i've heard of pirate enlightenment but only in a critical review ripping into it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48633884)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

i'm familiar with The Master and His Emissary and would like to read it - it's been referenced a lot and i agree with the thesis. i'm not familiar with the other books/authors

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628599)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:35 PM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm

ty

out of interest would you theoretically use an app that scanned your library and identified new books to read (actively finding them for you at the lowest price) and sending you occasional notices on book recs via email / app notif.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628609)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:36 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

yeah, theoretically, although this system would be easier for those who read ebooks regularly (i'll only read an ebook if a physical copy is not available, i don't like ebooks)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628619)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:38 PM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm

def be easier for ebooks but this is for personal libraries - you take a few pics of your personal library shelves and app then does the rest, idea would also match other similar personal libraries and provide recs etc ty



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628638)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:39 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628639)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Exciting School Clown

it's not always easy being a scholar, but you are in the right on this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628585)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:31 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628591)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Buff Bearded Private Investor

is your wife aware that you need books to write book reports for middle-aged balding lolyers?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628588)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 12:30 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

she is not. i can't talk politics with her even slightly, she's too shitlib

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48628589)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:36 AM
Author: ultramarine vibrant halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632200)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 3:33 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

had to step away from marriage therapy today when she went on a 33 minute screed about buying too many books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48629660)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 3:33 PM
Author: Salmon dashing spot

https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/do-i-own-too-many-books/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48629670)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 3:36 PM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

great link thank

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48629693)



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Date: February 6th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: Khaki laughsome house kitty

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Many readers buy books with every intention of reading them only to let them linger on the shelf. Statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb believes surrounding ourselves with unread books enriches our lives as they remind us of all we don’t know. The Japanese call this practice tsundoku, and it may provide lasting benefits.

Lmao yeah no thanks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48629707)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:25 AM
Author: Exciting School Clown

this makes me want to have even more books, absolutely

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632165)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:26 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632168)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:05 AM
Author: Odious Jet-lagged Business Firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632471)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 2:19 PM
Author: Salmon dashing spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48633406)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: Galvanic hairless goal in life abode

that is a very small number of unread books

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632179)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:51 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall

let's see yours

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632289)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:40 AM
Author: ultramarine vibrant halford

this type of shit contributed to my divorce. i was doing biglol and my wife with a WFH job was irate at like buying redbulls and shit.

if you're earning good money and saving, you are entitled to some modest luxuries. i simply cannot be henpecked for small purchases when i'm saving significantly more than i earn.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632215)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:47 AM
Author: fuchsia misunderstood university generalized bond

In terms of value Red Bull is shitty. It’s a good mixer at the bar but if you need caffeine Reign, Bang and others are all better. However Red Bull is acceptable if you simply prefer the taste or you’re sensitive to caffeine and Monster has too much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632253)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:51 AM
Author: ultramarine vibrant halford

idc if it was buying scratch off lotto tickets or just setting money on fire. being policed like a child over petty spending is intolerable.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632280)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: Buff Bearded Private Investor

need red bull to wash down your adderall

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632416)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 10:59 AM
Author: Brilliant insecure hall



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632419)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: ultramarine vibrant halford

glass houses!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632765)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: Doobsian crusty milk

C4 Ultra is great pre-workout but makes my skin crawl as a daily drinker. Before the office, it's Reign or Bucked Up, both of which are 300 mg caffeine and otherwise clean ingredients

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632671)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 2:41 PM
Author: Galvanic hairless goal in life abode

the top degenerate energy drink of Patriots is Robust.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48633542)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 3:17 PM
Author: Mahogany famous landscape painting

Bang tastes horrible man. Like Nyquil

Red Bull has a flavor that's hard to describe but it's interesting enough of a profile to enjoy one on occasion. Their seasonal flavors are also good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48633861)



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Date: February 7th, 2025 11:02 AM
Author: aquamarine histrionic legal warrant public bath

tuktuk baananana he read book too much no money

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5676325&forum_id=2#48632445)