INeedManaApr 4, 2025

Are there any "text caches" that we still are not sure what's inside?

https://lemmy.world/post/27772955

Are there any "text caches" that we still are not sure what's inside? - Lemmy.World

> In 1345 he personally discovered a collection of Cicero’s letters not previously known to have existed, the collection Epistulae ad Atticum, in the Chapter Library (Biblioteca Capitolare) of Verona Cathedral So basically a guy goes into a library, rummages for a while, and finds ~1400 years old text no one knew was there Do we still have places that store texts (like libraries, but doesn’t have to strictly be a library) where we don’t have everything catalogued and we don’t know what might be inside?

Show threadNeoNachtwaechterApr 4, 2025
I would assume that every serious collector of books, everybody who has more than a few shelves full, has not read all of them.
Show threadINeedManaApr 4, 2025

🤔 Isn’t reading them the point of collecting?
You seriously made me wonder :D

But still, even if they don’t read them, they know they have them. So the collector and the seller know that such book exists and is somewhere out there and the owner knows they have such title in their stash

Show threadBeldarofremulak
It’s like pets or kids. Some people collect them as objects or status symbols and don’t really care about them.
Apr 4, 2025 at 2:58pmWeb
Show threadINeedManaApr 4, 2025

That went dark very fast. I appreciate :D

I’ve never considered someone buying books as status symbols. But I can see that happening