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1. Frieren · 1790939091 · focus · HN ↗

   For me, the easy one is books. I love books, both for their content and as physical objects.

   I love my pdf folder with a million papers, documents, etc. Sorted and easy available. But mentally it does not compare with my library.

   In a trip I will bring my tablet to read books. It is practical and if a book does not click I have many more. At home I prefer the physical thing.

   None of them comes, at least directly, from algorithms. I add books to my list of purchases when they get mention on YouTube, another books, news, or even here.

   Many years ago I used Amazon book store suggestions because they were extremely good. But that was the time before enshitification when they were trying to give you the book the you will like the most not the one that will give them more profit.

   1. Hoodedcrow · 1790939551 · focus · HN ↗

      Books are also the one thing I much prefer to have physically! I can usually get fiction in my language (mostly in secondhand bookstores now), but I still have to get most things digitally. Most books I read are in English and my country isn't English-speaking, so getting them would cost a fortune. And sometimes out-of-print books even in my language are also hard to find due to scarcity. So pdfs and epubs it is.

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