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		comfypotato on Oct 1, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Get things done with Emacs Sorry for being dense, but I couldn’t deduce from the source; does the “anti” just mean “unread”?

shrimpx on Oct 1, 2022 | [–]

Yeah. It comes off as a playful/tentative term, not a precise one. If a "library" is a collection of read books, an "anti-library" is a collection of unread books.

presz on Oct 2, 2022 | [–]

Most of the books in libraries are books most people haven't read, does that make every library an anti-library?

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