Stupid Library and Book Stores
 

Why don't they have any books on Johan Gutenberg!!!??? He invented the printing press! You'd think they'd have something.

I have a week to find a biography and write a 5-7 page essay and make a 15 minute oral presentation.

maybe look up his archenemy fuchs-- the financer of gutemberg's experiments and the one who profited from them after he fucked gutemberg in the ass. and not in a sexy way.

Can't you just use the internet? For the irony if nothing else.

oh sorry. i checked the wikipedia and it's FUST.

well cocks, there is a blibliography @ the bottom of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gutenberg

Practicality.

I can, but it is required that I have a biography too.

that damn ingrate bastards.

pest

the bio is listed

you could also use encyclopaedias no? ever heard of those? :P

man im in a foul mood. i should follow gutemberg's example & spend all my money on alcohol.

They don't have anything that I can't find online, and I don't know if an encyclopedia counts. I just need a book dedicated to him because my teacher wants us to have one.

Gutemberg?

I already wrote about Fust...

Go to amazon.com, find one, get the information on it (publisher, author, etc.), and put it in your bibliography. Then make the reference up. Just use it for a general fact that you know the book will have. They won't call you on stuff like that. Not in high school, at least.

Can't you order one from a library. You can do that in libraries in the UK. They'll get books from any library in the country for a very small fee.

Or order from a bookshop, there's loads available (over here at least).

oh it's the M/N thing yes

i learned his name in spanish

hey pendex what language do you natively speak?

I would do that, but the teacher wants us to have the book and actually show it to him.

Lame, I know.



I did, and still hasn't come.

Ah. That blows. You have no way of ordering it? Honestly, if you just tell him your problem, he should work something out for you. Especially if the topic was assigned to you. If not, think about changing it. You aren't doing anything wrong within your control so there's not much you can do about it. I see no reason a teacher would penalize you, and you seem like someone teachers would find agreeable.

get yourself an old copy of encyclopedia britannica

that shit used to be written by geniuses as a matter of fact, back in the day the articles were amazing (according to borges anyway).

well look up books on the history of printing, foo.

another option would be on important figures of the rennaissance.

or something.

M/N: see look: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/anv/Finnbo/tek...o/Internet.htm

your teacher is right as most people rip their shit off the internet. once i had these 2 flakes show up with the same paper. unbelievable.

Also, find the reference section of the library. You can't take the books out of the building, but you can copy them - if worst comes to worst. They'll almost certainly have stuff on him there.

The thing is, school hasn't started yet. At the end of 9th grade we were given a paper thing that gave all that crap that I told you and "failure to complete on the first day of school results in gettting dropped from the class". So I have to show up with something. I am still waiting on that damn book to show up. I am writing as much as I can.

I don't know if I'll be able to make it 5 pages at 1.5 spaced. I could go 1.75 spaced and 12.5 font (I know I am a madman). You can't really tell the difference but it does make it longer.

^^here's someone who knows his libraries.

now alex go do your homework & don't be a laila. :p

...

But I hate doing homework.

Haha. I'm going. I'm going. I'm going...


In a couple minutes....

oh by the way--

librarians can be QUITE helpful and able to dig out stuff you wouldn't ever dream of finding. don't be afraid to ask one to locate this stuff for you.

Ya I used to think that the librarians just looked stuff up on computers and scanned your card. But there are usually entire sections you're unaware of - and even if you were aware of them, you may not know how to navigate them - and the librarians can show you around.

Moste librarians i've known are much helpful folks.Listen,matey,you don't sound as serious about finding such book as you think you are.Fuck it!Basically.

Porky, the later it gets, the more you sound like one of them foreigners that post here, with your broken English.

Must be the alcohol(was it correct english?).

I did ask the librarian, and he said there weren't any books on him that they had. I ordered a couple. In the meantime, since I wanted a book as quickly so I could get my work done, I went to Barnes and Nobel, and a different library, and they didn't have any either.

it's true that books on him are scarce. years ago i was attempting to write an article based on him for a magazine, and discovered that there is not much written about him. and that was at the library of congress. however as you heard reference books are the place to go in these situations. so your librarian might be a dumbfuck. there are a few of those in my (current) town. i could teach them a thing or two.

you could also print the library search page with no results & bring it to your teacher. ha ha.

but information there is available, & plenty.

i can't remember where i read about fust & gutemberg. it was kind of hilarious and pathetic at the same time.

okay i gotta go. have fun.

librarys are dusty, they slow you down. everyone there looks kinda faded. everytime i ever went the people all look like they go home to strange, sexual deviance. in the new library in my town there is a little room were all the homeless and neglected elderlies go to read newspapers. i would skip school and read there, those were the days. desperately lonely, escaping into phillip k. dick. one time a dude kept lookin at me, he followed me outside when i went for a smoke. he looked like old piss. he grunted about going to get drunk down by the river, i did, he had no money so i bought him cheap wine. he told me about how his ex wife had fucked him over and left him for some other dude. he sounded gentle and helpless with her. he told me about his life. it seemed so grey and so overwhelmingly bleak and small, he had no dreams, not one aspiration or glimpse of anything beyond his everyday. he was just down and had this "oh well" attitude. i tried to spark some thoughts of oppurtunity and future in him but it wasnt happening. i can remember this image of him sitting in the rain, with the grey bleak sky beside the black murky river, just deadened.

few weeks later i heard that he was dead.

you little prick, could have done a simple search:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/boo...y&cds2Pid=9481

ha ha you played us. now don't be a laila & go do your work.

find a bio then just say how his invention has benefited the world.

Well of course there are books availabe. But I can't acquire any of them without purchasing and ordering them and getting them 1 days before I have to have my essay done, which isn't what I want.