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Sexy spines or literary red flags: Reddit's bookshelf detectives will judge you by your covers

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Endless Thread producer Kalyani Saxena's bookshelf. She posted pictures of it on a subreddit called Bookshelves Detectives, where people make guesses about a person based on their shelves.
Endless Thread producer Kalyani Saxena's bookshelf. She posted pictures of it on a subreddit called Bookshelves Detectives, where people make guesses about a person based on their shelves.

Maybe you can't judge books by their covers. But can you judge people by their books? Reddit's bookshelf detectives say yes. Producer Kalyani Saxena guides hosts Ben and Amory through the stacks and offers a picture of her own bookshelf to the Reddit detectives as tribute.

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Kalyani Saxena Associate Producer, Here & Now

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