I can't wait for the day when every cheap paperback comes with a full literary concordance embedded in the back cover. Wow. Can you imagine? How cool is that!? You read it here first. "There's nothing too rum to be true." --Dean Corde, in Saul Bellow's _The Dean's December_
...as someone who has done time as an abstractor/indexer for big library databases I have to laugh at the sentence "There's big money in them thar databases." The truth is that the library database industry is getting killed by the Web, salaries are horrendously low, resources are slim -- this precedent could sound the death knell for these valuable resources. And that's a shame. And all because a few anal retentive a**hole Snopes-esque money grubbers had to get what was theirs. Maybe once finding their work becomes ten times more difficult they'll realize the true dividend of their greed.
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I can't wait for the day when every cheap paperback comes with a full literary concordance embedded in the back cover. Wow. Can you imagine? How cool is that!? You read it here first. "There's nothing too rum to be true." --Dean Corde, in Saul Bellow's _The Dean's December_
...as someone who has done time as an abstractor/indexer for big library databases I have to laugh at the sentence "There's big money in them thar databases." The truth is that the library database industry is getting killed by the Web, salaries are horrendously low, resources are slim -- this precedent could sound the death knell for these valuable resources. And that's a shame. And all because a few anal retentive a**hole Snopes-esque money grubbers had to get what was theirs. Maybe once finding their work becomes ten times more difficult they'll realize the true dividend of their greed.