Tag: Booksellers

Imagine yourself in a warehouse of books, a vast Borgesian warehouse that stretches on indefinitely in all directions. There are no lights in the warehouse; all you have is a small torch that illuminates a few feet in front of you. You can shine it on the shelves of the warehouse, but the books are not arranged in any particular order, just placed according to where they will fit. You have a very powerful tool, though, the search engine. If …