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   pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 20:45:16 JST pettter

   • Neil Brown

   @neil Why would I want to do that in VR though? There's public libraries if I want to do similar things in a social and shared space, and otherwise I can just sit at home reading from an e-ink-reader with music on my actual speakers. What does VR bring to it?

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     Wren Reilly (akareilly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:10:16 JST Wren Reilly

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     • Neil Brown

     @pettter @neil

     Not dropping dead from a preventable but now endemic disease, because staying home is less fun when you have to be isolated all the time in order to live. Libraries are nice. People can like nice things. Disabled people like nice things. Technology can enable nice things.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:54:37 JST pettter

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     • Neil Brown
     • OpenDNA⚙️

     @opendna I guess my question is whether or how VR would bring that experience? Who would do the curation and sorting necessary to do the serendipitous finds, and why would a VR library do that better than, say, goodreads, or a directed random pick from the Archive.org selection? @neil

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     OpenDNA⚙️ (opendna@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jun-2023 21:54:38 JST OpenDNA⚙️

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     • Neil Brown

     @pettter @neil I prefer the experience of wandering the stacks of a library to paging search results on a website, not least because of the serendipitous finds.

     But I live many thousands of kilometers from a library with even a middling collection in a language I can read. I suffer that every day.

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     OpenDNA⚙️ (opendna@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 00:03:38 JST OpenDNA⚙️

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     • Neil Brown

     @pettter @neil No curation. No next-gen algorithm with predictive sorting. I want to browse bookshelves containing every book ever digitized, organized by the Dewey Decimal system, in the most fantastic monumental library architecture my GPU can render.

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     pettter (pettter@mastodon.acc.umu.se)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 00:03:38 JST pettter

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     • Neil Brown
     • OpenDNA⚙️

     @opendna @neil there's no such thing as 'no curation'