On 6/23/06, Leslie Johnston <johnston_at_virginia.edu> wrote:
[...]
> After deciding to make my catalog public,
> I've heard from complete strangers who share my
> interest in some obscure authors, one of whom --
> a professor in Japan -- send me an interesting
> link about a project to geo-annotate works by an
> early twentieth century American author and
> record and map the locations using Google Maps.
The think I love about LibraryThing is serendipidy. It is probably
it's greates asset. My lovely collegue Slobodanka keeps telling me ;
"The definition of serendipidy is when you go to the library to take
out a book, and you end up taking out the librarian."
I guess the LT discussion is functional vs. human. It's not really the
right thing to do, is it? :)
Alex
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"Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know."
- Frank Herbert
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