Here\’s an entertaining commentary on the pros-and-cons of
Oxford University\’s somewhat archaic but venerable Bodleian Library:
I should mention that the library takes four to five hours to \”fetch\” a book from its stacks. Readers are advised to order what they need in the morning so they\’ll have it by afternoon. An all-morning wait should be enough to force a person into careful consideration. So why I ordered Universalis Arithmetica is a puzzler. This book is a ridiculously valuable first edition of a massively important work, true. Newton was still at Cambridge in 1707 when the Bodleian\’s edition was printed. . .
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