Category Topics

General

For any conversation that doesn’t seem to have a clear home in another category. (May be re-filed elsewhere; for now anything goes!)
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Reading

Talk reading: modes, strategies, practices. Join or propose a specific reading group. Share what you’re currently reading.
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Libraries

Libraries. Librarianship. Information science. Personal knowledge management. Databases, CMSes, classification, collections, archives.
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Recommendations

Request suggestions for yourself or a friend. Share that thing you just finished that you really loved. You might enjoy [x] if you loved [y]. Etc.!
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Meta

Discussion about this site, its organization, how it works, and how we can improve it. Please feel free to post any suggestions!
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Books

Long books, short books, red books, blue books: let’s talk all kinds of rad reads, from bookstore finds to long-time favorites.
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Ideas

Numinous notions. Wondrous Wikipedia pages. Intriguing ideas. Come across a cool and / or confounding concept? Let’s discuss.
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Videos

Let’s talk videos — fantastic films, edifying lectures or presentations, concise gems of audiovisual information. What’s on your watch list?
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Links

Websites, articles, weird sui generis internet media — if you can link to it, and it doesn’t fit a different category, let’s talk about it here!
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Collections

A category of categories! Or, more like: a place to discuss groups or collections of various books, ideas, websites, etc. etc.
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