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"We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them." - Warren Zevon https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/43290-we-love-to-buy-books-becaus

• m463 4y ago
  I buy books because I'm imagining something like trinity learning to fly a helicopter in The Matrix... <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoAk7zBTrvo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoAk7zBTrvo>
• tacon 4y ago
  I believe the source of that idea is this famous quote: "Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents." -- Arthur Schopenhauer https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_schopenhauer_121051 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/arthur_schopenhauer_12105...