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Originally Posted by j.p.s
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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Two things: The sense memory, again; that satisfying "chunk" when you took a drawer out and put it on a table, and the feel of the index cards as you flipped through them. Oh, and one more -- seeing cards that went way back and were handwritten. The jumble was aesthetically pleasing.
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.