A Search Engine That Finds You Weird Old Books

To help ‘rewild your attention’ I built a book-finding app

Clive Thompson
Debugger
Published in
8 min readJan 21, 2022

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(tl;dr — if you want to skip this essay and just try out my search tool, it’s here.)

Last fall, I wrote about the concept of “rewilding your attention” — why it’s good to step away from the algorithmic feeds of big social media and find stranger stuff in nooks of…

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Clive Thompson
Debugger

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net