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What actually surprises me is that the author bought 11 paper books from Amazon about NFTs. You really need 11 books to understand or write about a single concept? It is a highly controversial ongoing topic. Those 11 books most likely become obsolete exactly on the day after they were written.

Good catch on the one fake book! But I am surprised it was only one. Maybe the author started from that one and will write about the others later.

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The author bought 11 paper books because they wanted to make money posting a meta-review of the literature analyzing the arguments from all of them together. While they probably understood the points after a single book, they would have lacked the complete coverage (and the marketing hook).

I would expect someone writing that to have read the 11 most popular books.

The author didn't want to "understand a single concept" this way, but rather, as they say themselves, "get familiar with the best-articulated arguments put forward by the proponents of this tech".

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