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In Montreal, there's a number of small, enclosed, wooden shelves on street corners where you can "take a book, leave a book."📚 In the past two days I got some fucken scores: That's Mathematics For Elementary School Teachers (1987 Ed.) and Webster's New Universal Encyclopedia (1997 Ed.) I love them. It's so nice to just read a big reference book. In the maths book, the typesetting and layout is excellent. It feels so carefully crafted. Plus➕ elementary level maths is very approachable. Reading it feels like playing Breath of the Wild, where every new page is something interesting and joy-bringing to think about. The encyclopedia also rules. I love Wikipedia rabbit holes as much as the next guy, but there's something so arbitrary and serendipitous in reading about 25,000 important things in the world arranged alphabetically. It also has human errors that are charming. They misspelled Vostok here: Both books are also dated in their ways. The maths one was written for USAmerican teachers…

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