Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

# Summary The author reflects on his college library job shelving books, which became a valuable self-education experience through serendipitous discovery of quality texts organized by the Library of Congress system. He contrasts this curated yet random browsing method with today's Google searches and argues that the decline of research library open stacks represents a loss of access to quality literature, as physical books are increasingly discarded in favor of digital editions and "Learning Labs."