BraLoD said:
A quick search in the Internet Archive gave me access to both a book called The Wars of the Roses (316 pages) and Wars of the Roses: Stormbird (520 pages), is any of this the book you are looking for? Also, there are many ebook services like from Amazon, Google etc were you can access have to obscene amounts of books of all kinds, maybe its on those as well. The amount of content available in the internet is simply mindblowing. |
The amount of content is mindblowing. The quality of the content overall is crap.
haxxiy said:
We're way off-topic, but "real" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this post. No true Scotsman fallacy and all. You could just as well have said that the real internet tries its best to have truth, while a library or bookstore has everything, including lies and garbage. See how that goes? Hell, I'd argue that in the pre-Internet days, even good books included out-of-context, incomplete, and outdated data because, although some authors tried their best, their sources were limited in quality and quantity. |
I didn't mean to imply a no true Scotsman fallacy. Any book that gets published whether it is physical or digital is real. In the pre-internet days you did have a lot of incomplete and outdated data. But most authors knew how to use information literacy skills to vet the majority of their information. Sources were at the very least quality and in context at sometime. These days a tiktoker can make a 30 second video with tons of lies and half-truths, based on sources that were always garbage. It goes viral and spreads around the world. Same goes for tons of youtube videos. And it's overwhelmingly that sort of poorly researched, lowest common denominator slop content that dominates public discourse and the internet as a whole.
What I'm saying here is that while the internet does have a ton of information, the vast majority of it is useless or hard to find. Meanwhile a public library has mostly information that is useful and easy to find.
