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Still in Rockport, perhaps.
Essay and Response of the Moment Mr. Ibis forwarded on a good Paul Graham Essay on "stuff" Here's what I wrote on his comment board, though it got pretty buried: Hmm. I wonder if books are that different. Though they stack neatly on a shelf, unlike "random objects" (Which ties in well with the "builds a mental model" theory, that if it's neatly on a shelf, you're more able to "chunk" it and consider it as a "full bookshelf" instead of "book a, book b, book c" etc. That said, I'm still skeptical about that theory, I think human attention tends to be more focused than that, that even cluttered surroundings can "fade out"... but a cluttered environment is more likely to throw random distractions at you.) Do other media count get a pass as well? Video Games? DVDs? (personally, I think at least one factor in the success of DVDs is how nice they look on a bookshelf) Having just bought yet more bookshelves, I'm wondering. My (loosely applied) criteria is that a book must be at least one of the following:
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