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What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

– Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)

📖 Books that I am reading

Book cover showing The Calculus Wars by Jason Socrates Bardi. The cover features the title in large serif font with mathematical symbols for parentheses and not equal sign between two oval-framed portraits, one labeled Newton and the other Leibniz. Below, the subtitle reads Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time. The background is cream with a formal, historical tone.

Book cover showing a green lizard on a white background. The cover features the title Building Secure and Reliable Systems, Best Practices for Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Systems, and lists authors Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Piotr Lewandowski, Ana Oprea, and Adam Stubblefield. The tone is professional and informative.

📚 Books that I will be reading next

Book cover showing a pigeon standing above the title Nexus in large red letters. The cover features the author name Yuval Noah Harari at the top, with the subtitle A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI below the title. The background is cream, and the overall tone is scholarly and contemplative. The text also notes that the book is read by Vidish Athavale and mentions Harari as a bestselling author of Sapiens.