Kindle Index
It is a cruel twist of technology that librarians have become one of the most computerized professions. Whether transporting their bibliographic files across platforms or navigating all the varieties of text processing and information retrieval the technical expertise expected of them seems totally disjointed from the personalities that this profession should attract. Like Amazon, librarians rarely touch books. What librarians want to do, and are rewarded for, is party: events and fund raisers. The only people in the stacks anymore are kids playing and making out. Similarly, authors are now plunging the depths of HTML to properly format their works. Books have become video graphic experiences. I fully expect hypertext markup language to be taught in Humanities. Professors make use of services to check for plagiarism, grammar and composition. Except perhaps for Prince, who cut all his own tracks, most people work with others. Authors have const...