Re: Armitage CD and other electronic wonders

Me too Cathy.  And w/ bi-focals it's much easier to read off a printed page than a computer screen as well!

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: cathy carpenter <cathyc@rnet.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Fri, 28 Nov 2003 21:13:14 -0600

>Actually, it has nothing to do easy fact finding for me - I can search 
>the internet with the best of them. I just can't stand to read  
>anything much longer than a page from a computer screen, and if I'm 
>writing something, I absolutely have to have my print references in 
>front of me...generally I print out anything I must refer to from my 
>computer. What can I say? I'm just an incorrigible antediluvian...
>Cathy
>On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, at 02:57 PM, james singer wrote:
>
>> Guess I'm the only contrarian who thinks most gardening books are 
>> how-to manuals, not something to get teary-eyed over--rather something 
>> to get into, find what you're looking for, and get out of as quickly 
>> as you can. A long time ago, I thought reading the dictionary was fun 
>> but I gave it up once someone invented the spellchecker. Can't say 
>> that I miss it.
>>
>> And, of course, there are many, many books that I enjoy that will 
>> likely never become electronic--in spite of the herculean effort of 
>> the Gutenburg Project. But when I want to remember a passage from 
>> Huckleberry Finn, I go to Gutenburg and do a site search. I don't try 
>> to thumb through the yellowed pages of an old, inexpensive [probably 
>> book club issue], dog-eared copy.
>>
>> And, yes, I wandered though the back stacks, not only at university, 
>> but also at the National Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, 
>> before the National Agricultural Library was built. In those innocent 
>> days, I could check out 17th and 18th century books--even take them 
>> home to share with my children. That stuff [John Gerard's herbal and 
>> Philip Miller's Gardeners' Dictionary] will probably never make the 
>> electronic library. And it's a pity. Because they haven't made the 
>> reprint paper library either. And probably won't.
>>
>> Qualifier--Gerard's herbal was reprinted in facsimile several years 
>> ago at something like $100 per copy; as far as I know, Miller [the 
>> most popular gardening book of its time, and perhaps for a 100 years 
>> thereafter] has never been re-printed on cheap or expensive paper. My 
>> first wife [divorce settlement story] has a third edition. Seventeen 
>> hundred something; bound in leather.
>>
>> I'd settle for it on a web site.
>>
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