Forget Your Antilibrary, Try Bacon Instead
Nassim Nicholas Taleb Coined the Term. Lifestyle Bloggers Made It a Thing. But Francis Bacon Had a Better Idea
In his 2007 book The Black Swan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb pointed to the 30,000 books owned by writer Umberto Eco and offered the term antilibrary to describe all the unread volumes.
It’s a champagne cork of a word. After the first pop it plays no significant role in the book. It doesn’t even garner a place in the index. But the term caught on.
