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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.
— Roger Ebert
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The comparison imagines web research as using a library collected haphazardly and repeatedly damaged. The two images combine disorder in how material arrives with instability in what remains. It is a sharply critical description of the research experience, expressed through an exaggerated picture of a chaotic collection.
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