OK, this is that weird out-of-order article on gothic literature from The Cambridge History of Gay and Lesbian Literature. I posted it previoiusly as a simple blog item and now it's repeated as a regular LHMP entry. Sorry for the redundancy, but it's how I keep my life organized in systematic fashion.
And -- hey! -- yesterday I went off to the UC Berkeley library for the first time since Covid! Renewed my alumni library card. Failed utterly at figuring how to "wake up" the public access terminals in the reference section. (The ones I can download JSTOR articles from.) I mean, I know all the standard tricks for waking up a Windows machine that's gone into power-saving mode, but none of them worked. So I'll have to figure out when I can get back there when there's a human being on duty.
But I did go down into the stacks and pull a bunch of articles from books. This is made easier by the vast improvements in the phone-camera-to-pdf app that I've been using for around a decade. Back when I first started using it on books, you needed to hold the phone extremely still (while using your other hand to spread the book flat, and try to get the best light with no shadows), and the manually pull the frame around the edges of the page (so that it would de-skew the angle properly). Now the auto-focus and auto-frame-identification are vastly improved, and half the time the auto-shutter-when-the-image-is-right also works, so you can just hold the phone with the entire page in frame and it'll take the perfect image and you can move on to the next page. This is the same app I use for non-electronic receipts and it has a bunch of features I don't even use. Scanner Pro by Readdle -- highly recommended.
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