# Episode: 83 – [General] The Problem with Book Snobbery

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Podcast: [Paperback Friends](https://stenobird.com/podcast/paperback-friends-7055476)
Published: 2026-04-03T04:02:00+00:00
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Duration seconds: 980

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This topic has been bothering me for a while, so I thought we could make an episode about it. More reviews are coming up, and these other episodes have gotten a lot better, but this idea may have been a bit under-cooked. I still feel like this was fair at least =) Type: General | Book: N/A | Writer: N/A

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