The goal: read at least one book from every "decade" of the Dewey Decimal System. The purposes: get better acquainted with the system itself and with the breadth of human knowledge. (For example, did you know that there is a Dewey Decimal category for books about badminton?!) The method: check out one or more books from a given decade, starting with 000-009, every three weeks. Complete the book, rinse and repeat. Welcome to my journey from 0-999!
Thursday, June 26, 2014
40-49: The Category Formerly Known As Biographies
40-49: There is no 17th floor. There is no Miss Zarves. This, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes#Class_000_.E2.80.93_Computer_science.2C_information_.26_general_works) is where biographies used to live. Now it is waiting for someone to invent a new form of information gathering so it can represent that. There's a goal for you: be the guy who starts a trend that ends up in the 40s of the Dewey Decimal System.
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