Copying a book in Roman times was a hard job. Still, in the middle-ages, when there were the "amanuensis", from a-manu: by hand - doing-it-by-hand - mostly monks that (even without being able to read / write) just copy-cat books; with all those fancy first-letter-of-chapter. But this is a completely different story, of course.
As a French person, never heard of a "buveur d'encre" (ink drinker) - OTOH, "rat de bibliothèque" (library rat) is quite common.
When I was this boy's age, my parents wouldn't let me smoke with them, in the vehicle
That was the second. The first was Acceleration.
snap, crackle, and pop... see how ahead of the curveuswe record players are?
all CDs have got is the pits.
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ahem... that's for stacking records.
Couple of ways to do it, that one is a so-called 'umbrella spindle', which doesn't require the overhead swinging arm found on many changers (especially of US origin) to stabilize the stack of records patiently waiting their turn to play. 
this particular rekkid playa didn't have a single-play spindle. Original replacements aren't trivial to find. I eventually bought a 3D printed one that works acceptably. I'm trying to figure out how the hell. So, you stack a few records on it... and then? How is the catchy thingy actuated? Where is the actual changer mechanism? A carefully programmed industry robot that's not in the picture? When the next record drops down, the tonearm height becomes all wrong?ahem... that's for stacking records.
As curated
