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The Dream of the Universal Library [Asterisk]

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yarmando
3 days ago
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Good summary of the state of digitized books, some 70% of which are "neither in the public domain nor commercially available."
yarmando
3 days ago
"If we can negotiate grand bargains to keep feeding the machines books, surely we can design a rational, lean, humane licence that lets living, breathing readers borrow a digital copy of a work that they can’t buy. The universal library is near, but it’s up to us to ensure that humans, not just AIs, have a card."
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Good and Bad Ideas

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While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.
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yarmando
606 days ago
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Thin, crispy pizzas are better cut in squares, really.
nddmc12
606 days ago
Tell me you're from Chicago without telling me you're from Chicago.
yarmando
606 days ago
Columbus, but we get the breezes.
rraszews
605 days ago
Eating tiny little pizza squares somehow makes me feel like a little kid again even though, as far as I know, I never had pizza that way until graduate school. Pizza in tiny squares should be served with those Little Hug Juices
Groxx
605 days ago
Poe's Law is in effect: any sufficiently bad take is indistinguishable from satire.
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The film fans who refuse to surrender to streaming: ‘One day you’ll barter bread for our DVDs’ [The Guardian]

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yarmando
644 days ago
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Last year, a librarian showing me around her workplace indicated the media room and said, "This is on its way out." I disagreed: libraries do not have access to most streaming services, and the money spent on digital content we're allowed to license drains our budgets while the content evaporates.
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How Supervillains Are Born

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Hi cubetown

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yarmando
1209 days ago
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I need the "unlimited librarian power" quote on a t-shirt.
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Unshelved on Thursday, May 5, 2022

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Unshelved comic strip for 5/5/2022

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This classic Unshelved strip originally appeared on April 25, 2011.

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yarmando
1339 days ago
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Need new button: "We are out of COVID test kits."
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Questioning the Dogma of Banned Books Week [Library Philosophy and Practice]

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yarmando
2293 days ago
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Whatever, man. "Banned Books Week" is good branding. "Books-with-content-that-some-individuals-objected-to-and-sought—with varying success—to-have-removed-or-reclassified Week" doesn't have the same ring. It's a celebration that we *don't* ban books!
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