So many premature gestures to wax nostalgic about the book, but who will elegize the card catalogue? And the beautiful regularity of the thousands of index cards?
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Card Catalogue
November 22, 2010 by Nathalie Foy
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Nathalie Foy 
I will, I will! I think card catalogues are beautiful, and have unsuccessfully been on a (admittedly) casual hunt for one for years. There is one in the Great Library (a law library) that I eye every time I go… They are so beautiful and so tangible.
Yes. Tangible. I think it’s the tactile aspect of a great pile of index cards that so appeals to me. I have a bit of an index card fetish, truth be told. And I still have a paper daytimer. Just can’t give up pen and paper, the satisfaction of flipping pages and watching crisp, white possibility become layered with ink and plans, plans, plans.
There is actually an opportunity to wear your support for the card catalog: http://www.unshelved.com/store/Shirts/NeverForget
Fantastic!
Those are pretty. I like the notion of having cards for books, but I feel like they would be so easily misplaced. Plus online records can be retrieved from any computer, and that is also nice.
I do not at all debate the superiority of electronic catalogues for practicality or ease of use. I just love index cards!