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aleximedicusa · 3 years ago

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also not to be a bitch but someone just told me that doing a masters dissertation during covid when all the libraries were closed wasn’t really an accomplishment because ‘everything is accessible online now’ as if out of print books don’t exist,

#( * ooc. )#i'm??? dude yes a lot is digitise #is one random obscure pamphlet that jeremy bentham wrote in 1829 digitised? no!#is an out of print book from the 1980s that i could only get second hand online digitised? no!#maybe in some fields everything is but bruh i work in the early 19th century i assure you /not everything is fuckin online/#i know i'm being an uppity bitch but there were so many damn times when i was like #'oh this book would be perfect— aaaaand it's out of print and not digitised and there's one copy in the library and it would cost $200 #to buy it online second hand'

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