From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-04-27, D  wrote:   
      
   > I do have quite a nice and curated bookmark list. I use   
   > it most often to keep track of books I want to buy, and   
   > potential gifts for myself and my family.   
   >   
   > Apart from that, I'd say that I only use about 1% regularly   
   > if at all. The rest were bookmarked once, because of   
   > the enormously happy feeling in the soul that now it is   
   > "forever" within my control. ;)   
   >   
   > What tends to happen 99% of the time is informal   
   > bookmarking. That means I use a site, its stored in   
   > the history so pops up first, and I use it again and   
   > again... until I don't.   
   >   
   > So the bookmarks are a nice illusion.   
   >   
   > As for authors, they do tend to become worse over   
   > time. Since you liked them at one point on time, at one   
   > stage in their career, it is inevitable.  The author wants   
   > to develop try new things, and that's when they stop being   
   > interesting for me. Almost always. And very few author   
   > resign themselves to write the same type of fiction all   
   > their lives.   
      
   I can't say they were my favorite authors, but I got   
   into John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates back in the 1990s,   
   and their writing worked absolute magick on my vocabulary.   
      
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