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fl on Nostr: nprofile1q…0qmju Perhaps physical libraries are a vestigial remnant of a ...

Perhaps physical libraries are a vestigial remnant of a pre-digital era, but I do have fond memories as a graduate student of randomly browsing books next to the ones I had been looking for, or articles after or preceding the one I was initially locating.

The late Jacques Roubaud called it "the good neighbor theorem". In a library the book you really need is always the book physically close to the one you are looking for.