'Seeing was believing—but not anymore. Until very recently, if you doubted something, you could look it up in an encyclopedia or other book. But even these get changed retroactively nowadays.'
So, in lieu of everyone signing up for The Honest Broker - consider it time to horde, buy on eBay, scroll through used book stores, look in your sc…
'Seeing was believing—but not anymore. Until very recently, if you doubted something, you could look it up in an encyclopedia or other book. But even these get changed retroactively nowadays.'
So, in lieu of everyone signing up for The Honest Broker - consider it time to horde, buy on eBay, scroll through used book stores, look in your scruffy attic, and add every hard cover book published before the year 2000 that you've always wanted to your already considerable collection of tomes in your bookshelf. They're old, worn, read, and for the most part, true. They can't be rewritten, changed, altered or disguised. They can't be canceled. They can't be whitened out. They can't be deleted.
Books can be trusted for their authenticity. You don't have to agree with what is written within them. But that doesn't matter, for you can understand what you see. And trust yourself to decide.
The future is upon us and I do not like what I see..
I recently went looking in my attic for a hard copy of Webster's Dictionary because I suspected the online version has been changing the definitions of certain words. Sadly, I remembered selling it at a yard sale a few years ago.
To this I would add estate sales for books. I have an acquaintance who started buying old books as a hobby. He now has several storage units full and an online side gig.
'Seeing was believing—but not anymore. Until very recently, if you doubted something, you could look it up in an encyclopedia or other book. But even these get changed retroactively nowadays.'
So, in lieu of everyone signing up for The Honest Broker - consider it time to horde, buy on eBay, scroll through used book stores, look in your scruffy attic, and add every hard cover book published before the year 2000 that you've always wanted to your already considerable collection of tomes in your bookshelf. They're old, worn, read, and for the most part, true. They can't be rewritten, changed, altered or disguised. They can't be canceled. They can't be whitened out. They can't be deleted.
Books can be trusted for their authenticity. You don't have to agree with what is written within them. But that doesn't matter, for you can understand what you see. And trust yourself to decide.
The future is upon us and I do not like what I see..
I recently went looking in my attic for a hard copy of Webster's Dictionary because I suspected the online version has been changing the definitions of certain words. Sadly, I remembered selling it at a yard sale a few years ago.
Just don't buy any recently republished editions. They are being rewritten to correct the author's "unenlightened" language.
To this I would add estate sales for books. I have an acquaintance who started buying old books as a hobby. He now has several storage units full and an online side gig.