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What I see here amounts to an organizational problem. The Dewey decimal system isn't limited to physical copies. An application that has all that organizational
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
What I see here amounts to an organizational problem. The Dewey decimal system isn't limited to physical copies. An application that has all that organizational information on all of libgen for example would be much more powerful than at any one library. The only thing I see that is missing is randomly walking by a shelf and finding a book that catches your fancy, a side effect of the way in which the information is accessed, and we have other ways of stumbling on books, I do it all the time on the internet. My personal library is almost entirely made up of books I found like that.
While alphabetically indexed lists of http links would most certainly be prone to rot, other modes of information storage can be more resilient than physical libraries, and easier to access.