2026-08-21
6 分钟Today I want to talk about reading books.
And the reason for that is that I did an experiment.
I took a few pictures of a few of my bookshelves in my home.
And then I asked Claude AI to develop a spreadsheet showing the name of the book,
the language, the subject matter, and things of this nature.
And it did this, which I will show you an example of here.
And so I intend to, with the help of my grandson, to develop an extensive...
List of books, which is going to help me tremendously because very often I know I have a book
that I want to read again and I can't find it.
And I'm sure some of you have had the experience
that when you know that something is in a particular location, it's easier to find.
Whereas when you're not sure that it's in a particular location, you go,
I'll go to the bookshelf, I'll look for the book, convince myself
that it's not there and keep looking where eventually I'll realize that it is there and find it.
So I'm going to structure this spreadsheet
in such a way that I can find any book that I'm interested in very easily.
But that got me to thinking about just how powerful books are.
I reread books.
I want to go find them again.
And I did some research and it turns out that reading paper books is...