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why everyone wants to be the internet's librarian

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in lieu of my monday newsletter, which I didn’t trust you guys to read in between BBQs and beach days, i’m sharing an essay instead. i wrote this almost two months ago, pre newsletter, and made some minor tweaks. back to regular programming tomorrow. enjoy! So, celebrity book clubs are a thing now — I know this, you know this, it seems the whole internet knows this. Before this newsletter was my entire personality, books were my entire personality, so I’ve had a fair few friends ask me what my thoughts on this trend are. Do I find it icky? Cringe? Another example of how capitalism and celebrity culture relentlessly seek to commercialize every aspect of our lives? To that last point, let me remind us all that that ship has already sailed — weren’t we all having this conversation last year?! As a person with strong opinions loosely held, I find the entire thing pretty fun actually! Service95? Library Science? That actress from Fifty Shades and The Awful Spider movie telling us what to re

in lieu of my monday newsletter, which I didn’t trust you guys to read in between BBQs and beach days, i’m sharing an essay instead. i wrote this almost two months ago, pre newsletter, and made some minor tweaks. back to regular programming tomorrow. enjoy! So, celebrity book clubs are a thing now — I know this, you know this, it seems the whole internet knows this. Before this newsletter was my entire personality, books were my entire personality, so I’ve had a fair few friends ask me what my thoughts on this trend are. Do I find it icky? Cringe? Another example of how capitalism and…

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