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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Easiest Summer Reading List Ever!
Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 16:25:16 -0400
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On 5/21/25 4:21 PM, Ahasuerus wrote:
> On 5/21/2025 2:06 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I see your point, but optimist that I am, I'm gonna stick to "easiest".
>>>
>>> For example:
>>> - Since only 5 of them actually exist, you're done when you read those
>>> 5. If you want to read more than 5 books, you can choose whatever you
>>> want to read for book 6 and beyond.
>>
>>
>> Not at all.  In order to read those 5 nonexistent books, you have to 
>> write
>> them first.  That's likely harder.
> 
> It depends on whether "write them" includes the option to ask your 
> friendly neighborhood AI to write them for you!

Aye. You could even use the same AI that generated the original list - 
maybe it wanted to write those 10 nonexistent books.