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| Books in the Blogger's Office. Intellectual Credibility? Not so much. |
Does this bookcase make one look smart? Not sure but many media interviews are now filmed or streamed with shelved books in the background. The topic is explored here in the NY Times.
I get it, books are a pleasing aesthetic and suggest a level of intellectual rigor, particularly if the books on display were actually read by the individual in the foreground. I recently saw a few bookshelf backdrops on Zoom calls which were clearly a digital prop. Not so cool.
So I propose the following 'guidance': To avoid looking like a poser, use your own books as props, ones that you have a least skimmed.
Greater expert credibility comes from not only what one has read, but from what one has published, preferably in the peer reviewed literature.
