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Fleta Mcgurn posted:I found discarded ham on the library floor three separate times last year. Then I found a smear of cream cheese underneath the European History shelf. someone's trynna make a library sandwich.
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By popular demand posted:drat, it's not available for my kindle. https://archive.org/details/shakedownstreet00nasa (not 100% sure how you arrange to borrow epubs from archive.org, but it's an option they make available)
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Vavrek posted:Oh god, that story. he did a whole set of stories about "Dr Dillingham, Space Dentist", and they're collected in "Prostho Plus" (which I recall as being not terrible).
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That story was just hilarious to me when I was 13. I think that collection also had a dentist abducted by aliens who was working on some whale-sized creature whose cavities were large enough to climb inside.
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Cythereal posted:With this particular incident: you can be the smartest, most published man in the world, but if you check the "Monthly" box instead of the "Annual" box I'm going to process your paperwork monthly. Yelling at me because you thought the monthly option meant I'd divide that number by twelve and process that smaller amount each month does nothing but entertain me. I'm going to admit that I don't understand the distinction you're making between "process your paperwork monthly" and "divide that number by twelve and process that smaller amount each month".
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PhazonLink posted:why are architects such dumb fucks / assholes? you know the trend among fashion designers to create clothing that is meant only as a work of art, and not for use by actual humans?
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MisterOblivious posted:Book disinfection: nope. ... no returns? What?
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Communist Zombie posted:What exactly would a full set be? Over a decades worth with no missing issues? NatGeo's been going for over a century.
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therattle posted:What about the well-known Dutch author Charles Dikkens? We don't talk about him. Why don't you try Reddit?
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DerekSmartymans posted:In all seriousness, though, when I was in college somebody spilled coffee on some W. Faulkner correspondence. Since my college was Ole Miss, it was scandalous enough that even us Bio/Chem folks followed the story for a month. 👴🏻 Someone who has since died once told me the story of how, when she was studying at a university in Belgium, she was in the Old Documents room at the library, and another student came in to consult some 17th-century ledgers and took out a pink highlighter and underlined some important details.
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Gobbeldygook posted:I'm considering doing a data science project which would involve automated analysis of at least several hundred (but probably less than a thousand) fiction novels that were published in the last few years. Ideally I would have a script check out the ebook, download it, remove the DRM, analyze it, delete my copy, and immediately return it. For this project piracy is not an option, the analysis must be done on legally-acquired ebooks. Since I'm not actually reading them I'm really concerned about the potential negative impact on the library and other patrons. I've tried googling how much checking out ebooks costs libraries and the answers are constantly changing and mostly unknowable for me. I even found some librarians saying it's really just Good to check out ebooks because their budget depends on people actually using the resources so I don't know if I should be worrying at all. I believe the 'removing the DRM' stage may be illegal, which I'd normally scoff at but you said the legalities are important here. You could limit your project to publishers that omit DRM (e.g., Baen, Tor), or the vast "free!" sections on Smashwords, Kobo, etc? Also, I very much hope this isn't something involving large language models so that you could automate the generation of prose-like content.
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