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This article made me wonder: if you had 900 books, how would you ever be able to reference anything in those books? For example, today, I might think "Let me l
by alexpotato 8y ago
This article made me wonder: if you had 900 books, how would you ever be able to reference anything in those books?
For example, today, I might think "Let me look up that quote in one of the books in my Kindle app. I know I highlighted it so I can just search those."
Back then, did people have their own mini card catalogs or notebooks with quote-book-page data?
- lecarore 8y agoI guess it depends on the person, but my grandfather's flat used to be filled worth annotated books with little bits of paper bookmarks going out. I guess one would find a way. You could also make an index notepad listing quotes accompanied by the book name and page number.