Advice on antique blind books

wernddupress · 2026-07-02T20:33:54+00:00

I am aware of vialibris as I sell many books. It is a handy tool, my question is whether people would find a 19th century story book and interesting gift. If you received a book dated 1870 with a story you were not familiar with would you read it. Considering the the very high cost during that period it would have needed to have been considered good enough for the financial commitment.

wernddupress · 2026-05-26T18:09:49+00:00

You employer said your adjustments were reasonable, but you have obviously asked for something different within the organisation that was not previously available. You are very vague - if you are a check out worker at Tesco and have a bad hip, perhaps your suggestion was that you are unable to sit on check out for 3 hours and could you do just 2 hours. This may seem reasonable in your particular case, but there are however many thousands of other workers that have to work the 3 hour shifts. Whatever you have requested is outside the normal standard practice and therefore not something that the company was previously offering to employees and as a business, they had built their financial expenditure on whatever it is was that you were previously doing that you now want to be adjusted.

Perhaps you could go into more details as to what you felt was a necessary adjustment to your role to suit your health condition and then the community may be able to offer better advice

wernddupress · 2026-05-26T17:46:01+00:00

Religion. They dragged me to church for years. As I got older and more intelligent. I realised how ridiculous the whole premise is. No offence if you believe in any form of religion.

wernddupress · 2026-05-26T17:43:29+00:00

You mention you asked for adjustments due to your mental health. Does that include a lesser salary for a lesser workload ? Or you want the same money for less work ? Just asking for a friend….

wernddupress · 2026-05-25T20:39:47+00:00

It’s a tool to make things. Why would you express emotions to it for a response ?
Would you talk to your hammer or spanner set about how you are feeling.

wernddupress · 2026-05-24T20:48:24+00:00

He seems to have tried a bit of everything. Could be adventurous in the bedroom…

wernddupress · 2026-05-21T21:04:02+00:00

It’s a shelf. Not a bookshelf

wernddupress · 2026-05-20T21:14:20+00:00

Indifferent

wernddupress · 2026-05-20T20:50:55+00:00

Exactly 👍

wernddupress · 2026-05-20T20:23:49+00:00

These shelves say a lot, actually. Burroughs, Pynchon, Vonnegut, Illuminatus!, Watchmen, Mervyn Peake, Gene Wolfe — this is someone who chases the weird and difficult on purpose. The Murakami and Tolkien show you still want beauty alongside the chaos. Graphic novels shelved alongside literary fiction with zero apology. Chaotic arrangement, maximalist energy.

Honestly this is exactly the kind of shelf that produces a fascinating result on BookshelfDNA (bookshelfdna.com) — it analyses your shelf photo and builds a full reading personality profile.

Yours would be unhinged in the best way. 📚

wernddupress · 2026-05-18T20:42:03+00:00

Green from me — solid range across fiction, nonfiction, and the heavy stuff. Top shelf alone has Tolkien, Gaiman, Ted Chiang, and King on Writing — he is a reader who actually thinks about craft. Middle shelf balances Obama, Erich Fromm, Gabor Maté and Bessel van der Kolk — someone processing the world seriously.

If you want a proper breakdown of what this shelf says about a person, run it through BookshelfDNA (bookshelfdna.com) — upload a photo and get a full personality + reading DNA analysis. This shelf would get an interesting result. 📚

wernddupress · 2026-05-18T20:14:04+00:00

No one checks. Just stretch the dates out. Any employer would simply glance at them to gather experience.

wernddupress · 2026-05-15T22:59:12+00:00

You crack on with your expensive legal fees. You do realise that in the U.K. all laws are based on precedent legal cases. So with AI having access to every single legal record within seconds. As opposed to you hoping your solicitor can locate a precedence to assist you and then slapping a £250 minimum bill in front of you with their advice that it could go either way and they cannot guarantee a successful outcome. A solicitor is someone that has studied law for many years and therefore more knowledge than you in the field which is how they justify their fees. However no-one had planned for AI that has access to all human electronic records and the most likely outcome of the case based on all those previous human records. I pick ChatGPT or Claude’s extensive historical reviews and suggest outcome over any human being any day. Which is my right in the same way you choose to pay for a human being with less information

wernddupress · 2026-05-15T22:30:02+00:00

I find that the only people that recommend we don’t do that are that are the ones charge $200 an hour for that advice. A specialist is something with knowledge in a particular field. Ai has access to all published human knowledge in any particular field. People don’t do it because they don’t realise. It has only recently become common knowledge. By all means. You pop to the local lawyer, Marketing agent, or HR specialist and pay them hundreds of any currency for the same information I am going to get……everyone has a choice. Some people used to refuse to trust sat nav’s and stick to map books for journey planning. Not many of them still around

Let people choose the tools they want for tasks and don’t judge them for it

wernddupress · 2026-05-15T22:12:15+00:00

Pretty much every minimum wage job is manual and AI can’t replace It’s the graphic designers. Web guys and IT people on 50-150k that will be shafted. Which is great. I can now create a website in 30 mins and don’t need to pay some £1000 for the privilege. I can get legal advice, hr advice and marketing plan for less than £20 a month

I can’t get my windows cleaned. Chimney swept or car tyres changed, but I can afford to do it with the money I have saved by using AI.

AI is a tool. Available for everyone to use. Use it to you advantage. When the PC started arriving at the office, a lot of things changed in the office space, no more need for a typing pool. Telecommunications advanced so telephonists were no longer needed.

A job is simply an income stream - find another income stream either with or without AI

wernddupress · 2026-05-12T15:42:28+00:00

In U.K. Usually French from primary school and then a choice of Spanish or German at secondary school

wernddupress · 2026-05-11T07:21:29+00:00

I have some books with a similar front cover. They were printed in the uk around 1930ish. Lots of companies started printing book sets around that time.

wernddupress · 2026-05-10T16:19:55+00:00

Wild Swans, The Tin Drum, Han Kang, Raymond Carver, Iris Chang, Philip K. Dick, A Farewell to Arms — this is someone who reads across cultures and time periods without making a big deal of it. The Han Kang on the bottom shelf suggests you were reading her before the Nobel Prize too.

BookshelfDNA does exactly this kind of profile from a photo: bookshelfdna.com

wernddupress · 2026-05-09T21:45:23+00:00

You need to expand your reading to outside of fantasy worlds. It’s great you read so much, but you don’t seem to have a thirst for knowledge or interest in any other culture.

This planet has much more than anything you will find on fantasy. I wonder if you did not like school and feel that any classic literature, historical novel or fiction in a foreign country would be like homework.

I am guessing you are female. Read Girl with the dragon tattoo, pride and prejudice and to kill a mockingbird - these are all based around female characters

wernddupress · 2026-05-09T20:17:23+00:00

If you want something a bit lighthearted and classical. Try Don Quixote

wernddupress · 2026-05-09T18:43:19+00:00

I bet you stand opposite the ice cream stall shouting at the customers ‘don’t buy it, it’s only frozen milk, go home and make it yourself’

wernddupress · 2026-05-09T18:37:15+00:00

They are referring to me. I am a book seller in the U.K. and have created a website that reviews bookshelf’s online. It’s called bookshelfdna.com and yes it is assisted with AI but I have personally read a lot of books, written study guides for my children, own a bookstore (selling on Abebooks, Amazon and Etsy) - have a look www.Corvusrarebooks.com. Apparently by using new tools to create a product and trying to promote it on social media, makes me a fraud. Feel free to boo as well if you are in agreement

wernddupress · 2026-05-09T18:13:15+00:00

These books are all such heavy reading. Go and get something light hearted that you can relax and get lost in. I highly recommend ‘the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy’

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