I love this reflection on your ever-evolving bookshelves - not only the physical design (I can't help but think of the wobbly-stacked, heavily-sagging crates from my college days) but also how they speak to/about you as a reader. I am often amazed how even a quick glance at a particular book on my shelf can take me right back to where I was, and what my life was like, at the time of reading it! Thanks for sharing!
Oh yea that is confusing. It means that Sophia hides it in her spreadsheet. My understanding is that it is to keep the data and everything, but the activity on it is not worth tracking anymore.
That last bit about it "not being worth tracking anymore" made me sniffle; I feel sad for the author that their book isn't doing as well as it could/should in an ideal world.
I think this is why some of us write about books on Substack-- to keep some of these worthy books in conversation even when "the media" has had to move on.
I love this reflection on your ever-evolving bookshelves - not only the physical design (I can't help but think of the wobbly-stacked, heavily-sagging crates from my college days) but also how they speak to/about you as a reader. I am often amazed how even a quick glance at a particular book on my shelf can take me right back to where I was, and what my life was like, at the time of reading it! Thanks for sharing!
I don't understand what it means to say a book is "hidden." Hidden how? And from whom?
Oh yea that is confusing. It means that Sophia hides it in her spreadsheet. My understanding is that it is to keep the data and everything, but the activity on it is not worth tracking anymore.
That last bit about it "not being worth tracking anymore" made me sniffle; I feel sad for the author that their book isn't doing as well as it could/should in an ideal world.
I think this is why some of us write about books on Substack-- to keep some of these worthy books in conversation even when "the media" has had to move on.