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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Yea, I was getting a bit over the top here wasn't I. But if there is nothing a card beats nothing. It's what my church library uses but they may be going to computer soon.
Dale
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I have never used a library. It is an anathema to my book-shopping, text-hoarding, buy-stuff-because-I'm-feeling-depressed, must-own-what-I-read self.
However, I must say that those "cards" in their Dewey or Universal Decimalised cabinets are some of the most attractive items of itemisation I have ever grokked. There is something so extraordinarily "tidy" and practically archaic about them, with their badly-varnished-and-flaking drawers, the pitted and unpolished brass handles, and the yellowing and stiff bits of sometimes handwritten cards inside that smell like a mix of the requisite mothballs and an aging, particulate dissembly that just makes my head sizzle and my spine fizzle.
Okay, possibly, I should seek help. Likely, I won't.
Cheers,
Marc