GOD DAMN i love that i can tell someone to read a book and they will and then write on it and i get a different take on a thing i already loev from someone whose take-generating i care
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Replying to @DanielleFong @nosilverv1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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Replying to @DanielleFong @nosilverv
yeah, I look at Amazon, Goodreads and other book review blogs to get different takes on the book of interest. no waiting required :-)
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Replying to @learning20201 @nosilverv
it's so nice! tho i still order physical books on occasion. in some ways they contain physical magic!
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Replying to @DanielleFong @nosilverv
always a battle between resisting that physical magic thing, and the space constraints taken by physical books - can't carry around whole collections - and the fact that a collection of physical books isn't instantaneously searchable ...
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.... (the best you can do is go through index of each.. or furiously skim through many - well not really, we usually just search on the Internet then, don't we, instead of utilizing our trusted book collection?)
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Amazon actually searches inside books (for all the books there is a "see inside" feature), so you could make a collection out of the ISBN numbers of your favorite books, and then search through them...
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Google books might also work for the snippets, but then copyright battles restricted them how much they can display, so copyright sucks...
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Both Amazon and Google have dreamed the Universal Library dream, and making ALL the books searchable and accessible, with limited success due to lobbying by Big Publishinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkdkobK99A …
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I bet we can literally buy most of these rights in bankruptcy court down the line...
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