⌘F for Books

In history class we're working on a group project on Greek and Egyptian mythology and we're not allowed to use websites as sources, so we have to use books. At first, I was like "no big deal - I read books all the time". Wrong: I read novels all the time. Books are different, books are scary. I had a time in the library yesterday with my group.

I mean, I don't know how people did things without the internet! Doing research with books is hard - and that's with the internet telling me what I'm supposed to be looking for. First, we had to find the books, which is a lot harder than it sounds because the PSU library in HUGE. I had to go into the stacks - with all narrow little rows of books and the lights on timers and the tick-tick-tick until you run out of time and the ceilings so low you stoop a little bit to go through the doors. I realized something yesterday, I have NO comprehension of the dewy decimal system. I was looking for a book in the 50s, but it took me like ten minutes to realize that I was in the 500s section. And, while I was looking through the books, I kept thinking that life would be so much easier if there was some sort of search engine for books and then I realized that I had just described Google Books.

And I had tremendous appreciation for the internet.

But anyway, after we found all the books we had to open them up and read them. I mean, how else are you supposed to find the information you're looking for without ⌘F? I tried the index, but even if you turn to the right page, it takes a while to see what you were trying to find. That's if you turn to the right page. I spent like fifteen minutes reading over the same two pages like a billion times, looking for stuff about Zeus before someone pointed out that there were like five pages missing. Well then. Props to anyone out there, who went to school/college before Google was invented. I'm very, very sorry.

You know it's 2012 when you're reading a book and you glance up at the top of the page for the toolbar.

Just sayin'