bibliophibian

[extemporanea]

I had a weird and slightly horrible experience yesterday, which was to wander into the university library in order to dig books out of their stacks. The nice library assistant person who checked my record (and to whom I have definitely given curriculum advice in the last year or so) revealed that I last took books out over a year ago. This is not

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[rumint]

It is a shame about the Tolkien soc special collection. And I too am sad about the fading of L-space, with the loss of serendipitous discovery no kindle catalog can replicate.

But I think libraries are enough of a community good that bibliophiles will continue to organise shared bookish spaces long after everything is available electronically. And those 'print-on-demand' machines are pretty neat for getting hard copy of obscure texts.

[veratiny]

I've been likewise surprised in recent years on the odd occasion I've wander into a "library" by the lack of books. They don't even call them libraries here...they are LINC centres-library is clearly a dirty "old" world. So I've built my own library and have been on a mission to rescue as many books as humanly possible-I consider it my main charitable endeavour.