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All the books are heavily discounted. The great thing is that you know the books are heavily discounted. So if you see something you like, there is lots of incentive to buy and grow your library.
The business section at this location is great. 4 shelves of pretty random books. It's fun to just skim.
I also check the psychology section, which is somewhat disappointing because it's so small, but I sometimes make good finds there too.
*The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with "Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?" and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don't know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menancingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan
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