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So for the last couple of months...
Aug. 13th, 2019 02:56 pmI've been considering re-ordering my library. This is obviously to distract me from getting any music recorded or any writing done.
The problem is I've moved my old iMac to my sitting room to be physically next to my hub (I've had wifi issues) and now my reference library is upstairs in my room, which requires many trips upstairs and down. I want to keep the iMac in the sitting room because it is a nicer room in which to record. But I'm going to switch around all the novels to upstairs and bring my reference books downstairs.
It may not be strange that my library is rather better for recondite minutiæ than most folk's private libraries, and many books will have information or opinion not easily available on the net. Of old we extended our memory storage in book form - for what do we know that we have not read, excepting that of which we have direct experience; and I deem that simple direct experience insufficient to make a person in our modern world. There are better enhancements available to us now to assist us in our learning and in the storage of our learning, but in some respects I am old-fashioned. A book is a winsome thing, god wot. Or some such... And when they band together in monstrous roving libraries, eating ignorance and preying on inchoate stupidity... oops, wrong universe. Sorry, talk amongst yourselves until normal service is resumed.
The problem is I've moved my old iMac to my sitting room to be physically next to my hub (I've had wifi issues) and now my reference library is upstairs in my room, which requires many trips upstairs and down. I want to keep the iMac in the sitting room because it is a nicer room in which to record. But I'm going to switch around all the novels to upstairs and bring my reference books downstairs.
It may not be strange that my library is rather better for recondite minutiæ than most folk's private libraries, and many books will have information or opinion not easily available on the net. Of old we extended our memory storage in book form - for what do we know that we have not read, excepting that of which we have direct experience; and I deem that simple direct experience insufficient to make a person in our modern world. There are better enhancements available to us now to assist us in our learning and in the storage of our learning, but in some respects I am old-fashioned. A book is a winsome thing, god wot. Or some such... And when they band together in monstrous roving libraries, eating ignorance and preying on inchoate stupidity... oops, wrong universe. Sorry, talk amongst yourselves until normal service is resumed.
