01-25-2024, 12:52 PM | #91 | |
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I've actually done this in my DREAMS! For me, there is nothing to compare to entering a used book store and getting 'lost' for hours and hours! |
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01-25-2024, 12:55 PM | #92 |
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I like the smell of old books and the smell of what I think of as "library" is both happy and evocative. But what I miss most about paper books is being able to flip back to an earlier part of the book to the reference I want, going by sense memory based on thickness of pages read at that point and location on page.
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01-25-2024, 01:05 PM | #93 |
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I'm not sure whether I would ever use them if they still existed, but I used to enjoy browsing card catalogs in libraries, and I have fond memories of doing so, and sometimes miss them.
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01-25-2024, 01:15 PM | #94 | |
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01-25-2024, 01:21 PM | #95 |
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No thanks. I actually once fainted in a used bookshop. True, not so much because I was overwhelmed by the stink of old, musty paper, but because I had problems with low blood pressure when I was in my early twenties. Still, the smell is associated with dizziness and nausea for me to this day.
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01-25-2024, 01:28 PM | #96 | |
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The other was the serendipity of it, as you flipped through the cards you'd run across a book you'd never heard of, but was exactly the kind of thing you wanted to read. |
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01-25-2024, 01:35 PM | #97 | |
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I just don't get the attraction paper seems to hold for many people even now. I've never felt it, even though I grew up with paper books like most of you. |
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01-25-2024, 04:38 PM | #98 |
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01-25-2024, 04:48 PM | #99 | |
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Don't get me wrong, I love the new tools we have, but I definitely benefited from the card catalog back in the day. I also appreciate that with the cards, there was never any record anywhere of what you had searched for. |
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01-25-2024, 05:23 PM | #100 | |
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01-25-2024, 05:24 PM | #101 |
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And then you get the pleasure of an ambulance ride to the hospital as you as pass-out.
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01-25-2024, 05:39 PM | #102 |
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Unlike me, my parents weren't "book people" and we didn't have much money, so the library was my very close friend as a kid and teen. I have deeply fond memories of library runs and coming home with a tower of books in which to lose myself.
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01-26-2024, 01:22 AM | #103 |
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01-26-2024, 08:43 AM | #104 |
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"The Name of the Rose" and several other novels. I think one of the Joan Aiken novels has the poisoned book trope.
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01-26-2024, 01:37 PM | #105 |
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One of my acquaintances works in a university library. About 15% of their books from the 1830s-1870s have green covers that used arsenic in the colourant. Like many libraries, they have a safe handling sheet for these books. It pretty much follows the one in the Poison Book Project.
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