LIB — Collection 07
Library
A personal knowledge archive. The books are not a collection; they are equipment — each one filed by the problem it helps with.
500+
Physical books
Shelved, stacked, lent and mostly returned
4,000+
Digital books
A second library that weighs nothing
∞
Reading queue
The only honest number
Open on the desk right now
[Currently reading — update me]
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Reading trails
Books that lead to books.
Trails, not lists — each one is a route through the shelves, walked in order. (Specimen titles — the real shelf is being catalogued.)
Mountains & Pilgrimage
Books that explain why people walk uphill on purpose — read before, during and after doing it.
- 01The Living Mountain — Nan Shepherd
- 02Rain in the Mountains — Ruskin Bond
- 03A Mountain in Tibet — Charles Allen
Folk & Memory
How traditions survive: by being told. The academic backbone of the Folk Archive wing.
- 01Folktales from India — A.K. Ramanujan
- 02The Hero with a Thousand Faces — Joseph Campbell
- 03Everybody Loves a Good Drought — P. Sainath
Building Carefully
The engineering shelf — short on hype, long on craft.
- 01The Pragmatic Programmer — Hunt & Thomas
- 02Designing Data-Intensive Applications — Martin Kleppmann
- 03The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Reading notes
“She walked the same range her whole life and never ran out of mountain. The opposite of destination-collecting — proof that depth beats breadth, in travel and in reading.”
“Every tale exists in dozens of versions and none of them is the 'real' one. The version IS the teller. Filed next to grandmother's method.”
The physical shelf
In House Catalogue.
The full physical collection — mostly Gujarati literature, folk culture, biography, and philosophy. Searchable by title or author.
Catalogue maintained on Libib ↗
Borrowing requests are considered, with collateral.