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   Juan (reidrac@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 17:20:31 JST Juan

   Ewwww

   Well, the authors won't get a lot of royalties from the library; but still... how there's this crap and not actual books to learn e.g. programming is beyond me.

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     doragasu (doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 17:20:30 JST doragasu

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     @reidrac A conclusion I got years ago, is most people genuinely dislike learning 😔 We who find joy in learning are rare birds. It's disheartening, but this explains so many things.

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     Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 17:20:30 JST Anthk

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     • doragasu

     @doragasu @reidrac yesterday I literally tought the same at Casa del Libro in Spain. There were good ones... at the Engineering and Math sections. And, two, TWO programming books at CS/IT.

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     Anthk (anthk@paquita.masto.host)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 22:28:29 JST Anthk

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     • doragasu

     @reidrac @doragasu @pluralistic they used to have good ones, but at the upstairs floor, where there's one full of technical volumes.

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     Juan (reidrac@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 18-May-2025 22:28:30 JST Juan

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     • Cory Doctorow
     • doragasu
     • Anthk

     @anthk @doragasu I haven't paid much attention at regular bookshops, but I doubt computer science books will be on the shelves.

     Essentially because space is very expensive.

     I'm sure you can request any book; in fact, without being technical, at my local bookshop I had to request books by @pluralistic -- and you would have thought he's mainstream enough to have at least his latest book(s). Turns out: nope.