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The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted publishers to go digital, demonstrating exactly the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s made: to assume that people want professional guides in order to ''read'' them. | The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted publishers to go digital, demonstrating exactly the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s made: to assume that people want professional guides in order to ''read'' them. | ||
But a moment’s reflection should tell us they do not: one looks up one’s own entry and, if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum and, if not, commends yet another quiet resentment to the eternal pool in one’s interior monologue, | But a moment’s reflection should tell us they do not: one looks up one’s own entry and, if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum and, if not, commends yet another quiet resentment to the eternal pool in one’s interior monologue, before swiftly, bravely rising above it and ''gathering'' oneself. The best way to do this is to put the guide to one of its many better uses: propping up monitors, holding open fire-stop doors, dotting them around the department between pot plants to make the place look learned, or just loafing around passively on top of filing cabinets. Legal guides can survive this way for years. | ||
Now this being the case, an ''e-''version of a legal almanac is no good at all ''unless you print it out''. But that would blow a ream of virgin printer paper, and you are better just to use the ream as it is, lest you later need it to cover a late-night printing emergency. | Now this being the case, an ''e-''version of a legal almanac is no good at all ''unless you print it out''. But that would blow a ream of virgin printer paper, and you are better just to use the ream as it is, lest you later need it to cover a late-night printing emergency. | ||