Random statistics

[listersgirl]

As of today, I have met, however briefly, 30% of my friends list. Okay, I knew 9 of the 26 people pre-internet life, but still, that feels like quite a lot. And so far, not one of you has turned out to be a serial killer. Score!

Also in the department of random statistics about me: 63% of my friends list are paid users. Considering only 1.6% of LJ users as a whole are paid, that's quite substantial. I'm not sure exactly what that says about us, but I'm sure it says something.

I'm pretty sure, too, that many, many of you are librarians or work in libraries. This is not deliberate on my part -- I don't think I've ever added someone just because they are a librarian -- but I think more a case of librarians automatically gravitating together when they're anywhere near each other.


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Comments

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

I used the library a lot as a kid, but never developed a strong affinity for it. For one thing, card catalogs were evil. It was too hard to find stuff in them. Also, it's too hard to browse in a library. It's a lot harder to stumble upon random stuff, because you don't have the description on the book, and things are much more closely organized in the non-fiction section.

Plus, I'm an inveterate rereader, and hate to read on a schedule. I buy books I want, and then read them when they leap out at me. With a library, I have to go ahead and read them, which means I get less from them because the vibrations may not be right. (It's no wonder reading is so mystical for me, when I depend on vibrations to tell me what to read.)

I like to own the knowledge, too, which is why I still have my texts from uni and look at them!

I can see where others would feel exactly the opposite of me. I can see it, but totally don't feel it. :)