My dinner companion tonight was a fascinating article about one man's book collection. Here are a few snippets...
"I have a large library by most normal standards. Seemingly I've arranged my life in order to acquire as many books as possible."
"Primarily, though, books function as a kind of external hard drive for my mind--my brain isn't big enough to do all the things it wants or needs to do without help."
"But I would very much miss books as material objects were they to disappear. The tactility of books assists my memory, for one thing. I can't remember the quote I'm searching for, or maybe even the title of the work that contains it, but I can remember that the book is green, that the margins are unusually wide, and that the quote lies two-thirds of the way down a right-hand page."
"I have a large library by most normal standards. Seemingly I've arranged my life in order to acquire as many books as possible."
"Primarily, though, books function as a kind of external hard drive for my mind--my brain isn't big enough to do all the things it wants or needs to do without help."
"But I would very much miss books as material objects were they to disappear. The tactility of books assists my memory, for one thing. I can't remember the quote I'm searching for, or maybe even the title of the work that contains it, but I can remember that the book is green, that the margins are unusually wide, and that the quote lies two-thirds of the way down a right-hand page."
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That's pretty much how I find anything I've lost...not just book quotes.
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