Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

[cahn]

So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community, rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

Comments

Re: Jacobites

[mildred_of_midgard]

Clearly I should use the word "extremely" less.

Haha, our overused word on the Fritz side is "amazing".

Also, bless university interlibrary loans.

Indeed. I started out having only my parents' Compton's Encyclopedia set, plus the library of a very unacademic high school, but for one glorious summer my parents were willing to take me to the public library every weekend, and the public library would let me ILL books from the university. Any birthday or Christmas money I acquired was immediately spent on history books from the local used bookstore, and I got a very small handful of trips to the university library itself for school reasons (and yelled at by my parents, but fuck that).

If I had the ability to read physical books today, I'd be ILLing like crazy for Fritz (I'm keeping a wishlist for if that changes), but as it is, all I can say is "bless Google Books." (And bless our royal reader selenak, of course!)

Also bless Google Maps, Google Translate, Google Drive, Google Cloud Vision (for OCR), and of course Google Search. (I've joked to my wife that this is a very Google-enabled fandom!)