A very highly regarded reason that I acquire, collect, read, and yes, horde #oldbooks is due to the vocabulary inside.
Yes, I could websearc-- Nope.
No I fucking can't.
I feel like I cannot reliably source some of this nuanced information due to the wildly erratic nature of injected ai results, and genuinely crappy sites that are full of ads and shallow lists. Discovery of this type of information feels impossible due to these issues, I am maybe just burned by too much bad info to care to search more, but old books are generally where real information sits for me. Are they "more accurate and reliable"? I don't know, but the integrity of them being physically printed helps me think they are, especially when I have several on a similar subject that agree on mant things.
How can this be translated better to the greater knowledge for human benefit? I have come to the conclusion that it simply cannot all be globalized and homogeneous in informational nature, and that books are the last bastion of nuance, beyond learning directly from those that could probably write them.
I give exceptions to many things I say here, for instance Charles Petzold, but guess what, he wrote books like mad, now happens to have a web presence on some badassery of old tech and maths. See the lost art of logarithms.
I was only able to find that through other nuanced sesrches, but it was not an intuitive discovery as I may find when parsing Half-priced-books in store or a library of physical #books.
TLDR; get more old books you lovely and gentle people!
Thanks for catching my rant. :D
