Comments on: To Read a Book is to Ignore 4000 Others http://johnmiedema.ca/2009/11/03/to-read-a-book-is-to-ignore-4000-others/ books, libraries, technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:07:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: barbara http://johnmiedema.ca/2009/11/03/to-read-a-book-is-to-ignore-4000-others/comment-page-1/#comment-4188 barbara Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:59:48 +0000 http://johnmiedema.ca/?p=4033#comment-4188 I'm not so much a skeptic as a neurotic. I want to be able to absorb everything, both on and off the net and it freaks me out that I can't. At the same time, I know that it is more important to be able to synthesize what you have absorbed, otherwise it's pretty useless. (I think Heinlein wrote a book whose main character was a synthesist. A synthesist and a librarian seem to be interchangeable...maybe that's why you and I have chosen that as a profession.) The book NOT chosen is the one I want... I’m not so much a skeptic as a neurotic. I want to be able to absorb everything, both on and off the net and it freaks me out that I can’t. At the same time, I know that it is more important to be able to synthesize what you have absorbed, otherwise it’s pretty useless. (I think Heinlein wrote a book whose main character was a synthesist. A synthesist and a librarian seem to be interchangeable…maybe that’s why you and I have chosen that as a profession.)

The book NOT chosen is the one I want…

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