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deiki  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What Are Your Bedside Books?

There's a great satisfaction in having instant resources. Using a search engine ruins it for me, but I can't word exactly how.





humanodon  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Could it be a tactile thing?

deiki  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not at all.

It's the quiet tumult of trying to find a nicely formatted edition through a very addled middle man.

Do you know what I mean?

humanodon  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think I do.

user-inactivated  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For me it's memories. I read the Silmarillion before I used the internet.

deiki  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Adding the phrase "before I used the internet" sounds infinitely more impressive than "when I was a kid".

Saying that I read it before 9/11 however...

user-inactivated  ·  3868 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I believe I did. It would've been about that time, I guess.