While working at EnglishCentral, my friend Burak and I, were sent to the company’s office in America for a month right after we were graduated. Due to jetlag, I was falling asleep around 7-8 PM and waking up around 2-3 AM. I would wake up at three in the morning and read Patrick Rothfuss’s The Kingkiller Chronicle series until work hours. I read for hours, returned directly to my hotel after work, and continued reading. While my other friends who came to Boston were traveling around New York and Salem, my only desire was to return to my room. I was even declared the most frugal visitor in the office (they were probably kind enough not to announce that I was also the most antisocial).

You can probably understand that I was very impressed by the book. With each chapter, my horizon expanded further, the fantastic universe described became more vivid in my mind, and I couldn’t break away from the story.

Now, I’m going to reveal the part that impressed me the most from this 2000-page series (we’re still waiting for the third book) that affected me almost on every page: the moment when the main character Kvothe enters the only library in the book’s universe, the unique magic of being among books for Kvothe. Kvothe’s unique love for “knowing.”

Imagine a universe where there is no internet, and we can’t easily find information; how valuable would the only library in the world with an infinite book inventory be? Now, let’s come back to today: are we aware of how valuable it is to have access to the information we possess at any moment?

Since our fellow countrymen Thales and Anaximander of Miletus in Anatolia conducted the world’s first scientific thinking exercise, people have been producing scientific content regarding the answers to some questions. Why do earthquakes happen? How did the Earth form? What is that white thing that appears in the sky at night? Why does Abdullah Avcı play Batista Mendy as a center back? Today, we can reach the answers to every question, except for the last one, and of course, millions of other basic questions I haven’t written here, with just one click. In fact, we are all always inside the library that Kvothe entered. We can know. All we need to do is take a little time and then simply know.

Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by this incredible luxury. I will talk about that in another article.