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That's true. But at least you can do a search on a computer.
by luotuoshangdui 1y ago
That's true. But at least you can do a search on a computer.
- cjs_ac 1y ago> You can't grep dead trees.
- Ozarkian 1y agoThe world's librarians at least gave it a good effort. Do you still remember all those card catalogs at the library?
- sidewndr46 1y agoNot just that, I remember learning all of the different systems and being told how invaluable it was for research.
- timcobb 1y agoI caught what must have been the last itty bitty tail of that. I was a 3rd grader in 1993 and were taught all about the card catalog and the Dewey decimal system and taking notes on note cards and organizing them in notecard boxes and how important it all was for research. I'm glad we moved on from that. For me, it was a drag.
- jolmg 1y agoIIRC from when I visited a library earlier this year, they were still being used in the genealogy section.
- sokoloff 1y agoYes, I remember them but also observe that we’ve moved on from those trays of cards in narrow drawers systems (and good riddance!). Those cards are no replacement for literal grep, of course. They were a search across a tiny summary of the contents, albeit a fairly structured one (which is helpful for some searches).
- mistrial9 1y agodead trees dont change your search results and insert ads, add tracking and profiling
- genewitch 1y agoOr get updated content! Had a Lawrence block book where pages were added or removed from a kindle device. Trevanian had an anecdote in shibumi about how he had to remove the description of a museum robbery from later editions of an earlier book - the eiger sanction. I own the first edition of both, obviously.
- SoftTalker 1y agoMost books where that is important have an index.
- layer8 1y agoMore often than not they are a bit lackluster, unfortunately.
- fuzzfactor 1y agoThy this, get the real massive paper copy of the Grainger catalog from your local outlet. Then download the catalog in PDF form. Compare the speed with which you can page through 100 pages or more at maximum physical speed which is useful enough visually for you to get enough of a grasp to stop exactly where you need to, when you wouldn't know exactly what to search for in text form anyway.
- 0x1ceb00da 1y agoAfter reading pdfs for a few years one day I bought a physical book. I remember looking at the corner of the page for time and thinking about CTRL-Fing for something.