"Read books are far less valuable than unread ones." Umberto Eco owned thirty thousand volumes, and of the visitors who asked how many he had read, he said only a small minority ever grasped the real point: a private library is not a trophy, it's a research tool.
Nassim Taleb called this part of a library the antilibrary: the more you know, he said, the larger the rows of unread books should grow. Not a sign of neglect — the exact mark of where you know you don't know yet.
This library today is made of two parts. 44 books gone through, gathered in The Table. And 15 not yet opened, listed below — my declared antilibrary.
The ones waiting — and which, following Eco, are already worth something as they are.
The 44 books this library has already spoken with — with their stories in The Table.
