• poltroon
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    1 year ago

    I suspect it’s more a matter of priorities. He didn’t have better things to spend his money on, and also maybe some of them would have been trades given the one-off nature of books. He may have even transcribed some of them himself. Collecting them over a period of years is a different thing than buying several hundred one of a kind items on short notice.

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      1 year ago

      I also imagine to him it’s more efficient to buy a book than borrow it whenever he gets a new idea to study. Borrowing books probably seems like wasted time and money to him if he already suspects he’ll read it 5 times minimum