Desperately needs curation tailored for different subjects, countries, and disciplines (really liked the old dewey and loc classifications as a *starting point* for web content)
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This post:
https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodop,n/116076341380952832
Got me to thinking a bit.
Aggregation (accession? Not sure if there's difference of meaning.)
Curation.
Cataloging.
Discovery.
Weeding.
The World Wide web is *great* for aggregation. Sometimes for discovery (surfing), but really bad at the rest. Also used to be good for searching -- but not currently.
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My grandmother and her sisters in the early, early 20th century in SouthEast Alabama would hurriedly stop what they were doing and all quickly gather on the porch to smoke cigarettes *nonchalantly* when the wood "work wagon" with the teenage and college aged boys passed by on the way to their homes from working at the cotton gin.
Attached: 1 image Book 17: Out on the Porch. I have a big porch Someone gave this to me. I thought "Oh neat, like my porch" but this is very specifically a book about SOUTHERN porches which means it has a certain vibe to it that is at once familiar (Faulkner, Lee, Wolfe, Morrison) but not what I was looking for. It's a nice commonplace book with lit excerpts about porches (Southern porches) alongside some nice photography of various kinds of porches. There's also an intro by Reynolds Price who I had not heard of.
I bought a CueCat from LibraryThing when they first got them. It was so useful to me when cataloging my book and graphic novels library.
Their holiday store has them on sale for $5 for the holidays.
Now you can use a mobile phone, but back then it wasn't an option.
But you get a neat little plastic cat sculpture with a USB tail and flashing red mouth with a CueCat.
Useful for Bookwyrm.
https://www.librarything.com/more/store
#CueCat #LibraryThing #catalog #cataloging #Library #Libraries #z_lib #Bookwyrm
Sunshine today. Bicycled what I could of the Root River Trail and the city's cleared Creekside trail and picked up some books and DVDs at the Rushford Public Library.
#Rushford #RushfordMN #Minnesota #MNastodon #snow ##MNwx
#RootRiverTrail #CreeksideTrail #RushfordPublicLibrary #PublicLibrary #z_lib #Library
Wonder if this is when white gloves should be used:
Attached: 1 image News you can use: How to Spot a Poison Book (If you grew up on Mr. Yuk ads like I did, it turns out that was good training.) https://blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer/how-to-spot-a-poison-book/
The article explains why my 50 year old cassette tapes sometimes squeal during playback.
Attached: 1 image Take 1 magnetic tape recording on the verge of being lost forever, and gently bake until playable. https://theatrecollection.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2025/10/27/the-great-tape-bake-off/
I have a hard time believing I did this.
I was offered to go down into a basement full of books and take whatever I wanted without paying for them.
Told myself I didn't have space & walked away.
Told my wife and she asked what I did with her husband.
For context, in the past, I had a 2 room apartment with a kitchen and bath. When we moved, my books filled up 4 rooms of our new to us rental house.
#books #bookstore #libraries #z_lib #bf_psychology #ct_biography_marriage #ct_biography
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