it was wonderful and i miss the card catalog. searching on a computer is not the same thing at all. the card catalog let you /browse/.
and the more i think about it, the more i come to the conclusion that humans are inveterate browsers. search is fine if you know what you want, but browsing is how you figure out what you want.
For sure, I still brows the stacks in the library, and I kinda stopped watching movies after video stores closed, streaming just isn’t the same.
But card catalogues really sucked for dyslexic kids who’s spelling is pretty shit. Electronic catalogues win there!
It’s kinda funny though, I’ve started writing physical letters again and mailing them, sometimes I’ll write something down and look for the red squiggly on the page and quickly think to myself “shit, it’s a pen and paper”. My correspondent will just have to deal with my spelling, hah.
it was wonderful and i miss the card catalog. searching on a computer is not the same thing at all. the card catalog let you /browse/.
and the more i think about it, the more i come to the conclusion that humans are inveterate browsers. search is fine if you know what you want, but browsing is how you figure out what you want.
bring browsing back!
For sure, I still brows the stacks in the library, and I kinda stopped watching movies after video stores closed, streaming just isn’t the same.
But card catalogues really sucked for dyslexic kids who’s spelling is pretty shit. Electronic catalogues win there!
It’s kinda funny though, I’ve started writing physical letters again and mailing them, sometimes I’ll write something down and look for the red squiggly on the page and quickly think to myself “shit, it’s a pen and paper”. My correspondent will just have to deal with my spelling, hah.
Heh. Sorry.