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Have you ever used a card catalogue?
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Have you ever used a card catalogue?
- _Algernon_ 4y agoNo. Your point being?
- MichaelCollins 4y agoIn that case your expectations are understandable. People in your generation are accustomed to finding anything in mere seconds. Not very long ago, if it took you a few minutes to find a book in the catalogue you would count yourself lucky. And if your local library didn't have the book you're looking for, you could spend weeks waiting for the book to arrive from another library in the system. Libgen's search certainly isn't as good as it could be, but it's more than good enough. If you can't bear spending a few minutes searching for a book, can you even claim to want that book in the first place? It's hard for me to even imagine being in such a rush that a few minutes searching in a library is too much to tolerate. But then again, I wasn't raised with the expectations of your generation.