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My Book Journal

This blog is for me to take notes of the books I'm reading, so that I won't have to buy a bunch of books and then keep them around. I have too many books already, and some of them will have to be pruned out. I used to believe you could never have too many books, but now I read so much self-help, popular nonfiction, and books of passing importance to a) purchase them and b) archive them. So I'm going to keep my records here and then I'll be able to refer back to them if I'm ever looking for similar information in the future.

I'm going to have a gap in my notes between the time I quit buying books and now, but I have a few records and will put as much historical info in as I can. But mostly it'll be forward-looking.

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