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[dreamer_easy]

Why I never get anything done:

"Andy was nothing if not methodical and so he had simply looked up every book that had ever been written on such topics, and every book mentioned in those books' bibliographies, yea, even unto four of five generations; checked out all of them that were available locally; and ordered the rest from ILL."
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

I'm not eligible for Interlibrary Loans any more, alas - but add in journal articles and ABE and that's basically what happens every time I get the hots for some new topic.

(This book also uses the phrase "a bad case of jangly ganglia" to describe the results of a punch in the head. "Best to leave that fancy stuff for later, and concentrate on more basic phylogenesis: it would be nice, for example, to be a vertebrate again.")

Comments

[lferion]

I know that method (just typoed 'methos' there -- wonder if he'd do the same with a new field?) of research. :-) Having access to university libraries is daaaaaangerous. My Pima Community Library ID gets me UofA books.

Happiness of the season to you, on this the 2nd day of Christmas!

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Happy day-after-Boxing-Day! :-)

[murasaki-1966.livejournal.com]

Two words: public library. They will get you ILLs so long as you keep it to a reasonable level. Most charge a small fee for the service, and absorb the larger cost.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Hang about - do you mean my local council library can get books from academic libraries? (Hell, even if they can just get books from other council libraries, that would kick ass.)