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| m 3eud "[player], have you heard of an {i}antilibrary{/i} before?" | ||
| m 3eub "It's a term inspired by the Japanese concept of {i}tsundoku,{/i} or collecting books without reading them." | ||
| m 4eub "The antilibrary, then, is the collection of those unread books." | ||
| m 4lksdlb "You might think this is just a hoarding habit, or the product of a little too much shopping..." | ||
| m 4eud "But some scholars argue that the antilibrary can be a research tool, or another similar service to its owner." | ||
| m 3eud "It's basically a tiny private library, when you think about it." | ||
| m "Though, personally, I think an important factor of an antilibrary should be its organization." | ||
| m 3eka "Having a bunch of stray books hiding around your house is nice, but if you want to use it well, it needs some sort of structure." | ||
| m 1eua "Some factors might make organizing more complicated, however--{w=0.1}{nw}" | ||
| extend 1hub "for example, what if we were living together?" | ||
| m "We might find an antilibrary in each others' collections!" | ||
| m 1tub "So it doesn't necessarily {i}need{/i} to be so structured, I guess.{w=0.2}{nw}" | ||
| extend 1hub "Still, I'll strive to read through my antilibrary over time!" | ||
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| m 1eua "Some factors might make organizing more complicated, however--{w=0.1}{nw}" | ||
| extend 1hub "for example, what if we were living together?" | ||
| m "We might find an antilibrary in each others' collections!" | ||
| m 1tub "So it doesn't necessarily {i}need{/i} to be so structured, I guess.{w=0.2}{nw}" |
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I feel like I want to rephrase this given the context. In a sense, it can be heavily structured, but in each person's collection, it'd be structured to their taste, just not the other person's taste
That doesn't mean it's unstructured, but that the structure is relative.
I feel like in a way that makes the example kinda fall flat because she's kinda tackling what I may be misinterpreting as an issue.
Not to mention, the example provided could theoretically be solved via two bookshelves -- Monika's and the player's. Which loops us back around
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I'm missing the point of what antilibrary is.
The antilibrary, then, is the collection of those unread books.
Implies it's a bunch of unread books. Nothing is said about sorting.
Some factors might make organizing more complicated, however - for example, what if we were living together? We might find an antilibrary in each others' collections!
Implies it's a bunch of unsorted books. We know that at least Monika would read her books.
So is it the former, the latter, or both?
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It's a little bit of an academic justifier for a bunch of unread books, hahah.
Though when she says it can be a research tool, maybe I should expound on that. Say if I buy a bunch of nonfiction I haven't read, but I know I can reference it later for papers I have to write for school--that's sort of the primary justifier.
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I think that expands things in an interesting way. For example to that end, is the internet itself not the biggest antilibrary?
We have information at our fingertips but often don't read it.
I'm almost wondering if this could even shift to a social commentary on how most of what humans do with information is simply regurgitate it instead of spend the time to actually look into it
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Though when she says it can be a research tool, maybe I should expound on that. Say if I buy a bunch of nonfiction I haven't read, but I know I can reference it later for papers I have to write for school--that's sort of the primary justifier.
You don't quote or reference a book without reading it first. So your example would fit more a home library.
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Oooh, I really like that point. Okay, I might completely rework this ending from the organization aspect I used
Co-authored-by: multimokia <misty@multimokia.studio>
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