How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?
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How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?
I made a list of products that I might sell online. I started force-ranking them, and I picked books. Books are super unusual in one respect, which is that there are more items in the book category than there are in any other category. There are three million different books in print around the world at any given time. So the founding idea of Amazo
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books. “The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading; a man will turn over half a library to make one book,” Samuel Johnson said.
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Do we ask the point of knowing what Einstein thought? Do we make a great puzzle of why Mozart is played in so many adverts or why Vermeer stops everyone in their tracks? Do we need to be reasoned into reading our way through hundreds of pages about behavioural economics or the history of early humans? Do we wonder whether seeing a work of Michelang... See more
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