It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.
Plus, librarians are research monkeys by profession. Find one and say “Hey, I need to know a bit about yak urine in Tibetan hunting practices” and they’ll provately say “FUCKING WHY?” but outwardly say “Let me check a couple places, see if I can get you some articles.”
You can also look up potentially incriminating things on a library computer; we wipe them automatically when you log off.
More you might like
Anonymous asked:
Space mom i have a really hard time with religion like I was raised jewish but we weren't like really religious and my step mom like, taught me about wicca when I asked her and so I guess I'm something in the two but I met this guy and my favorite crystal point that I use to pray got this big ass chip out of it and lo and behold this guy's a shithead it was the powers that be warning me ma -D, witch, I guess
«At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way—one page at a time. We use the Scribe, a book scanner our engineers invented, along with the software that it runs. Our scanning centers are located in universities and libraries around the world, from Boston Public Library to the University of Toronto to the Wellcome Library and beyond. Eliza is one of our fastest and most accurate scanners. Next she will execute quality control checks and fix any errors. Then she ships the book back to our Physical Archive for long-term preservation. Now imagine this: scanners like Eliza have done this 2,000,000 times. That’s what it takes to provide you with a free digital library.» – Plus Internet Archive’s Modern Book Collection Now Tops 2 Million Volumes, by
Chris Freeland, February 3, 2021
♥
Anonymous asked:
Eyooo I'm an astrophysics student in the U.K.!!! everything hurts my brain! Also I just wanted to say so many people clump religion under how Christianity treated scientific research but they fail to recall the Islamic golden age, literally massive libraries containing scientific knowledge and this open approach to scientific ideas, as a Muslim, if really impacted my decisions of going into the science field. And a lot of people don't know that European science was based off of Islamic science
Yes! The ‘dark ages’ is a purely European term. During the European dark ages, eastern society, especially middle eastern societies, were making incredible strides in the sciences. Most of what we consider ‘European discoveries’ in astronomy actually come from middle eastern or Chinese discoveries.
Fun fact: many public libraries now have 3D printers that you can pay to use! We charge per gram of filament so something like this would probably be less than $10! Just a thought for anyone who wants 3D printed stuff w/o having to buy a several hundred dollar machine
Microsoft has a DRM-locked ebook store that isn’t making enough money,
so they’re shutting it down and taking away every book that every one of
its customers acquired effective July 1.
Customers will receive refunds.
This puts the difference between DRM-locked media and unencumbered media
into sharp contrast. I have bought a lot of MP3s over the years,
thousands of them, and many of the retailers I purchased from are long
gone, but I still have the MP3s. Likewise, I have bought many books from
long-defunct booksellers and even defunct publishers, but I still own
those books.
When I was a bookseller, nothing I could do would result in your losing
the book that I sold you. If I regretted selling you a book, I didn’t
get to break into your house and steal it, even if I left you a cash
refund for the price you paid.
People sometimes treat me like my decision not to sell my books through
Amazon’s Audible is irrational (Audible will not let writers or
publisher opt to sell their books without DRM), but if you think Amazon
is immune to this kind of shenanigans, you are sadly mistaken. My books
matter a lot to me. I just paid $8,000 to have a container full of books
shipped from a storage locker in the UK to our home in LA so I can be
closer to them. The idea that the books I buy can be relegated to some
kind of fucking software license is the most grotesque and awful thing I
can imagine: if the publishing industry deliberately set out to destroy
any sense of intrinsic, civilization-supporting value in literary
works, they could not have done a better job.
If you’ve got an ereader and want to actually own your books, I heartily recommend using cailbre to scrape the DRM off and so you can backup the files.
Seconding calibre as a brilliant tool for ebook management in general.
lezzyharpylezzyharpy
epubor is also useful for scraping drm off kindle books. i downloaded the older version of the kindle pc app that downloads books in .azw3 format instead of .kfx, and then use epubor to remove the drm, and calibre to convert to epub
Man at the bar on Saturday night, Craigville, Minnesota in 1937