Technology taking over...

[Minty]

I'm with you on notetaking by hand. Somehow it just doesn't feel "right" otherwise. Okay, you have to transfer it over to the computer anyway, but still feels more natural scribing it first. Besides which, there's no surer way of getting people on your back in a library than to speed type with a laptop (esp. if the librarians are all like the technophobic coffin dodgers with more make up than Coco The Clown at my local branch). Telling them "I've saving the planet by saving paper and reducing my carbon footprint" is only likely to have everyone else putting real footprints all over you at high speed.