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But the trouble didn’t stop with a couple of beanish [[snowflakes]]. The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted the legal almanac publishing industry to go digital, thereby making the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s did, which was to assume that ''people want guides to the legal profession in order to actually read them''. | But the trouble didn’t stop with a couple of beanish [[snowflakes]]. The [[Covid]] pandemic prompted the legal almanac publishing industry to go digital, thereby making the same [[category error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s did, which was to assume that ''people want guides to the legal profession in order to actually read them''. | ||
But as a moment’s reflection should tell us, they do not. One looks up one’s own entry; if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum; if not, commends another quiet resentment to the eternal mental pool; and then puts the guide to any of its manifestly better uses: propping up monitors, open holding fire-stop doors, | But as a moment’s reflection should tell us, they do not. One looks up one’s own entry; if it is there, sends a photocopy to mum; if not, commends yet another quiet resentment to the eternal mental pool; and then swiftly puts the guide to any of its manifestly better uses: propping up monitors, open holding fire-stop doors, being dotted around the department between pot plants to make the place look learned, or just loafing around passively on filing cabinets. Legal guides can survive this way for years. | ||
Now this being the case, an ''e-''version of a legal almanac no good at all ''unless you print it out''. But that will blow a ream of virgin A4 printer paper, and you are better just to use the ream as it is, in case you later need to raid it to print something out. | Now this being the case, an ''e-''version of a legal almanac no good at all ''unless you print it out''. But that will blow a ream of virgin A4 printer paper, and you are better just to use the ream as it is, in case you later need to raid it to print something out. | ||