I miss card catalogs. For whatever reason it was easier for me to track stuff down paging through one card at a time than calling up a web page with a million options on it. Plus, the visceral feel of handling the drawers and cards was nice.
ITA with this. Granted, this marks me Of An Age... but I love card catalogs. At SF Public Library, they used to have an art installation of those cards.
I have a 4 drawer card catalog wood box at home. I want to use it for something, but can't think of what. To store wine, maybe?
I sincerely hope the B&N on the Plaza in KC doesn't close. I think it probably does a healthy business, though.
I feel sad about the Barnes & Noble closings...I like the one in my neighborhood, even though I haven't been in for months.
Is that the one we went to?
I didn't realize there were B&Ns closing! I was sad when Borders went under.
Yeah, I kept being excited about B&N big sales when I was in various ones in various towns where I'd previously lived...until I realized they were clearance sales because they were closing.
They still have lots of those big flagship stores in fancy malls, though, where they sell lots more toys than books, it seems. I dunno.
They were selling one of my childhood libraries' card catalogs at one point, and I badly wanted to buy them, but really, what was I going to do with them? It wasn't like they were selling the bookshelves. (Years later, when they remodeled the church library at our mission, I totally claimed one of the bookshelves. It's awesome. It takes up the whole wall of my guest room.)
B&N has been close to bankruptcy for years.
I was in a card shop the other day that had notecards featuring old card catalog cards with weird titles. They were awesome. I miss card catalogs too. And stamps!
B&N is pretty much the only bookstore in my town. (There are the 2 university bookstores - but that's not the same thing.)
Plus, my knitting group meets there weekly.
I hope B&N doesn't go down, when I replace my Nook I don't want to have to get a Kindle.
There are at least four bookstores in Pt. Townsend, which i find rather surprising.
I want old card catalog cabinets. I have no place to put them, but oh! I want them. I'd store all sorts of things in them: sewing notions, bottles of ink, bottles of perfume, scarves and jabots ...
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