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Key takeaways from Building an antilibrary: the power of unread books

Unread books can be as powerful as the ones we have read, if we choose to consider them in the right light.

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s Scottish scientist James Clerk Maxwell once said: “Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science.”

Tsundoku (積ん読) is a beautiful Japanese word describing the habit of acquiring books but letting them pile up without reading them

Instead of a celebration of everything you know, an antilibrary is an ode to everything you want to explore.

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