Book Snails Book Group discussion

BOOKWORM TRIVIA:   French libraries initially used playing cards [which often were printed blank on one side] for their card catalogues.

Ever wonder how the ubiquitous 3" x 5" index card came to be?

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Read 'How the index card catalogued the world': https://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...

and 'How the humble index card foresaw the Internet [and card catalogues]': http://www.popularmechanics.com/cultu...


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Index cards are also handy for making a hipster PDA, which never needs recharging, and is immune to malware:

Many new words or new meanings were added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary in 2019.

Can you guess what some of them were?

Link: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words...

Tsundoku: The practice of buying more books than you can read

The Japanese word describes piling up books to save for later ... even if you'll never actually read them.

Read the article: https://www.treehugger.com/cleaning-o...

StarMan wrote: "Tsundoku: The practice of buying more books than you can read

The Japanese word describes piling up books to save for later ... even if you'll never actually read them.

Read the article: https://..."

Guilty.

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