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Kes: OneDrive was initially a little aggravating to set up, but paid off last night when I was updating an old laptop and found all my files were already right there

Every Shortcut You Need for the Microsoft OneDrive Windows 10 App
https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-onedrive-keyboard-shortcuts/
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While my cataloguing system for ebooks is quirky but efficient, organizing my paper and ink books remains an annoyance, mostly because the braille labels I make for the books keep flaking off.

The really irksome part is that these same labels have no problem sticking to the bottom of my socks.

I probably should not have named my armarium The Closet of Mysteries.
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In _The Name of the Rose_, what is William quoting from when he quotes the following: "'The librarian must have a list of all books, carefully ordered by subjects and authors, and they must be classified on the shelves with numerical indications'."
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Is there a way to tell if these are an older and newer edition of the same text, or whether the newer text has been changed from that of the older edition?

1. _The School of Peter Abelard: The Influence of Abelard's Thought in the Early Scholastic Period_
by D. E. Luscombe (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: New Series)
Publication date: October 2008
ISBN: 97805210888a24

http://www.amazon.com/The-School-Peter-Abelard-Scholastic/dp/0521088828/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1I7K4AKE6CO1B&coliid=I1JDHLUTEO5FN3

2. Same title, same author, same series, but different publication date and ISBN
Publication Date: July 1, 1969
ISBN-10: 0521073375 ISBN-13: 978-0521073370

http://www.amazon.com/The-School-Peter-Abelard-Scholastic/dp/0521073375/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1I7K4AKE6CO1B&coliid=I32G10YGABUAPK
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I know that it's cool for scholarly types to bash the reliability of Wikipedia, but over the past two days it has won my heart by helping me comprehend to what extent the popes of the middle ages really were pulling the political and economic strings of Europe: everybody whose anybody links to all the other anybodies. It's like six degrees of Clement V.

Years ago I had scanned _The Key to the Name of the Rose_ but, last time I read NOTR, I couldn't find it on my computer, but I did manage to acquire a scanned etext from the Darknet. Unfortunately, hte entire middle section, which is a chronology failed to line up the dates with the actual people, places, and events which they were supposed to represent. Yesterday I finally got frustrated enough that I thought I would start reconstructing the chronology using Internet resources (yes, this is the sort of thing I do for fun). Much to my shock, _The Key_ left out a lot of the juicy details which really help to underscore why all the monks in NOTR are so paranoid.

_The Key_ is still a great resource for the Latin translations and a very superficial explanation of the connections, but I would definitely encourage readers who want to really dig into NOTR to use Wikipedia as a resource, also.
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I would love to know more about your book or article, but my screen reader program is not able to read the title in the image of your book cover, so if you don't mention the title, I won't know what it is, and just posting a link to the publisher's Web site doesn't typically offer that info either. The upside to this request is that other users will get better search engine results if you include a text title, rather than just an image of the book cover.

Thank you.
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So am I the last person to know that there is a sequel to "Time After Time" titled _Jaclyn the Ripper_? And will those steampunk parents ever learn to keep the kiddies away from the time machine?

Also, whoever lavels the genre for Fictionwise's ebooks was obviously doing some really amazing drugs, because not only did a whole series fo Westerns get labeled "romance," but _Let the Right One In_ is *not* a romance, it is a friggin' vampire novel. I'm almost tempted to buy the ebook copy because the book is also a mucking tome, but now that I have a BookSense, I want to be able to read everything on it, so I probably won't buy the DRM ebook.
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And I have been in more than one meeting where I have heard these exact
words (and I am not making this up), "If only we had some kind of system
to deal with this, some way of identifying content!"
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