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NNadir

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3. I have always used a "shotgun" approach to literature. I'm so old that it used to involve bringing loads of...

Reply to erronis (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 20, 2025, 09:28 AM

20 hrs ago

...quarters to the library, coming home with reams of paper.

I recall a certain amount of sadness when my wife prevailed on me to discard my paper collections of journals to which I used to subscribe: I had about ten years of the Journal of Organic Chemistry on my bookshelves.

If what I have on my little disk would easily fill a McMansion if it were paper.

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