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Robin Sloan is an American author. His debut novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, is about a laid-off Silicon Valley tech worker who begins working at a dusty bookstore with very few customers, only to start discovering one secret after another. The mysterious old books, along with the store's owner, lead to a 500‑year‑old secret society.

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Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

Book, Books, Might, Sexual, Trying, Work

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

Book, Night, Staring, Traitor, Use

All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain site.

Hiding, Knowing, Secret, Secrets, World

Then: I google "time-series visualization" and start work on a new version of my model, thinking that maybe I can impress her with a prototype. I am really into the kind of girl you can impress with a prototype.

Girl, Google, Model, Start, Thinking, Work

. . . I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five new languages.

Five, Guilt, Language, Translated, Wikipedia

So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me during the day. When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it’s actually you that’s time-shifted?

Blogs, Doe, Mean, Media, Scroll, Sites

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Built, Immortality, Knowing, Plain, Secret, Sight

But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only work at a company with a mission I believed in. Then I thought maybe it would be fine as long as I was learning something new. After that I decided it just couldn't be evil. Now I was carefully delineating my personal definition of evil.

Evil, Kept, Learning, Learning Something New, Long, Personal

If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.

Impressive, Sound, Sounds, Thirty

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

Creeping, Dawn, East, New York, People, Tweet

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

Emergencies, Emergency, Firsts, Messages, Text, Thing

Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.

Figures, New York, Phone, Phones, Shes, Times

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

Consume, Doe, Mean, Media, Single

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

Closely, Dislocation, Littles, Together, Whirl, World

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes

Book, Clouds, Eye, Head, Listen, Read

Imagination runs out. But it makes sense, right? We probably just imagine things based on what we already know, and we run out of analogies in the thirty-first century.

Already, Analogies, Imagination, Imagine, Right, Running

He asked <. . . > Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <. . . > I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

Book, Books, Love, Parks, Rosemary, Suppose

. . . nothing lasts long. We all come to life and gather allies and build empires and die, all in a single moment - maybe a single pulse of some giant processor somewhere.

Allies, Lasts, Long, Maybe, Processor, Pulse

I loved The Chronicles of Narnia. I loved The Chronicles of Prydain. Basically, 'Chronicles of' - I was in!

Basically, Chronicles, Narnia, Prydain

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

Father, Immortality, Mean, Stories, Ways, Years

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