Has anyone ever had this happen to them?

Someone who’s name I never heard of sent me a book as a gift. The book is about 200 pages, but the content could have easily fit in 100 pages or less. Also, page 3 says “printed in the USA”, but the last page says “printed in Germany by Amazon distribution”. The text is very generic self help stuff. My conclusion is this book was probably written by AI, and someone is sending out copies to get it to the best seller list. Holding the book doesn’t justify the current price of € 46, and leafing through it doesn’t give me the impression that it’s dense in information, it looks to be just generic stuff.

  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    A couple of questions:

    1. Is Latwan Estrella an anagram of your name?
    2. Is this somehow a message from your future self?
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      5 months ago

      LOL, most definitely not on both questions. Also, if I wanted a self help book on this topic I could find something better.

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          5 months ago

          They would have, since I recieved it. The problem is, I leafed through the book, and it seems to be very generic. So if future me sent it, it wouldn’t be for the content. Maybe it has just the right thickness for a wonky table in my near future?

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            5 months ago

            MAYBE its so generic because your future self encoded it. The self help is generic because its actually cipher text. And only YOU have the key. Maybe the giftee’s name is the key. Hmm.