About this episode

Jason Scott discusses his passion for old catalogs while sorting through a vast collection at the Internet Archive.

The Stacks of Catalogs Episode: A New Round of Sorting Catalogs, The Miracle of the Catalog, Desktop Publishing, Forgotten Labor, The Rise of the Instant Change, The Guided and Adored Catalog Scanning, Treasure. Another rumination in just how much I love old catalogs, on the occasion of sorting the 40,000+ catalogs collection at the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/catalogs

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