Up: [[Words, Beautiful and Otherwise]] Created: 2023-05-17 I’ve been listening to Bianca, Nick and others talk about anti libraries for almost a year and I’ve never understood their value or even truly what they are. Today I finally fell on a snippet of information from a post that was on Medium. The term antilibrary comes from statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb. It means the books you want to read but haven’t read. Its value is that it keeps you humble by constantly reminding you of all that you do not know. Meh. While I understand now what it’s supposed to mean, antilibrary still seems a pointless term. Anti suggests opposite, but if a library is inclusive of books you haven’t read as well as those you have, which is how I understand a library, how is an antilibrary the opposite of anything? And to push this further, do any of us really need a library full of unread books to remind us of what we don’t know? Won’t thirty seconds on the internet do the same thing? I prefer the term [[Tsundoku - Books You Don't Get Around to Reading]]