Episode

The Stacks of Catalogs Episode

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Jason Scott Talks His Way Out of It
Published
Jul 4, 2026
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793
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Summary

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