On 5/11/06, jf_wikipedia@mac.com jf_wikipedia@mac.com wrote:
On May 10, 2006, at 12:21 PM, Peter Jacobi wrote:
Quite often, when I stumble by accident into an article, perhaps interwiki-ing from/to de.wikipedia, I find dozens of weblinks and not a single book given, even when they are easy to find, even for me.
At some point of time we must stop trying to evolve into a backup copy of the WWW and draw from other sources.
I agree, Peter.
Too much emphasis is given to online sources. IMO, nothing beats a trip to the library.
-- Jossi
That depends. In areas where things change books in libaries can be horibly dated.
-- geni