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Post by **Shai'tan** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:31 am

Anonymously Famous wrote:I'm sure I'll end up reading them eventually.

If you like your fantasy to not be cliche, try Brandon Sanderson. His Mistborn books are amazing.

I bought his book "The Way of Kings" when he was in town to do some signing, going to read it after I finish The Wheel of Time and maybe The Song of Fire and Ice series.

cyan · Post by **cyan** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:57 pm

assdef wrote:
cyan wrote:No, son--I'll tell you a story from waaaay back when, about the great libraries of the olden days.
Once upon a time there was a magical thing called a book. It was made out of paper, which had words on it. Crazy, right?
These books would be packed full of history, literature, and many things to learn. Before we had the Internet, people had to go to the library and read books to get information! Isn't that insane?
Worse yet, have you heard of a card catalog?

I actually haven't.

assdef · Post by **assdef** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:18 pm

So get this: in order to find a book in one of those public libraries, they used to keep drawers and drawers and drawers full of little index cards with the author, title, and subject of each book on them. You then had to go through the drawers to identify the book you wanted, and use the Dewey Decimals from the card to find the book in the stacks.

Here's what a catalog would look like:

Anonymously Famous · Post by **Anonymously Famous** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:32 pm

Shai'tan wrote:I bought his book "The Way of Kings" when he was in town to do some signing, going to read it after I finish The Wheel of Time and maybe The Song of Fire and Ice series.

My wife liked that one. I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

assdef wrote:So get this: in order to find a book in one of those public libraries, they used to keep drawers and drawers and drawers full of little index cards with the author, title, and subject of each book on them. You then had to go through the drawers to identify the book you wanted, and use the Dewey Decimals from the card to find the book in the stacks.

I'm kind of glad that we don't have to use those anymore.

DownSpaghetti · Post by **DownSpaghetti** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:02 pm

Anonymously Famous wrote:
Shai'tan wrote:I bought his book "The Way of Kings" when he was in town to do some signing, going to read it after I finish The Wheel of Time and maybe The Song of Fire and Ice series.
My wife liked that one. I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

assdef wrote:So get this: in order to find a book in one of those public libraries, they used to keep drawers and drawers and drawers full of little index cards with the author, title, and subject of each book on them. You then had to go through the drawers to identify the book you wanted, and use the Dewey Decimals from the card to find the book in the stacks.
I'm kind of glad that we don't have to use those anymore.

I wonder if there is a book about the Dewey Decimal system and taking books out of libraries.

Post by **atomtengeralattjaro** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:25 pm

Most likely there is.
The fun of card catalogs was the fact that the catalog system was in itself a library.. it would've been cool to make a catalog for the catalog system.

assdef · Post by **assdef** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:38 pm

I remember when I was younger having a class in the library where they taught the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system.

cyan · Post by **cyan** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:06 pm

...The what? I don't even believe that.

DownSpaghetti · Post by **DownSpaghetti** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:46 pm

cyan wrote:...The fuck? I don't even believe that.

Well your gonna.

Anonymously Famous · Post by **Anonymously Famous** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:53 pm

assdef wrote:I remember when I was younger having a class in the library where they taught the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system.

So do I, around the time that I got my first library card.

Dreams · Post by **Dreams** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 1:06 pm

assdef wrote:I remember when I was younger having a class in the library where they taught the card catalog and the Dewey Decimal system.

A library of library cards. Then we might need a library for cards for the library of library cards.

assdef · Post by **assdef** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:03 pm

It was all very confusing. See, they had to have three cards for every book: one to arrange by title, one to arrange by author, and one to arrange by subject. So yes, in large libraries the card catalog was often more impressive than the library itself.

Now you just go to the computer and you click a button and the silicon chips and electron dip and such produce your books for you.

Anonymously Famous · Post by **Anonymously Famous** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 4:56 pm

The databases are just electronic card catalogs.

Post by **atomtengeralattjaro** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:11 pm

select * from allbooks where title=ASDF groupby author orderby date asc

Dreams · Post by **Dreams** » Mon Apr 23, 2012 7:13 pm

Result = '0 results.'

assdef · Post by **assdef** » Tue May 01, 2012 12:17 am

If by '0 results' you mean 'ALL RESULTS' because ASDF is everything and everything is ASDF.

MTG09 · Post by **MTG09** » Sat May 05, 2012 9:52 pm

asdf is everything but nothing is asdf

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