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Comment author: David_Gerard 01 September 2013 10:09:27PM *  0 points [-]

Shadowplayers: The Rise And Fall of Factory Records by James Nice (who is also military history writer James Hayward). A history of the Factory Records label, by the man who's reissued large chunks of its catalogue over the past twenty years. A marvellous story if Manchester post-punk sounds like the sort of thing you'd be interested in. I have to go through it and redigest large chunks of it into Wikipedia. This is unduly difficult as for once in my life I've bought the physical paper item and it's a five hundred page brick, but at least I can use page numbers in the references.

Comment author: satt 02 September 2013 12:19:40AM 1 point [-]

I have to go through it and redigest large chunks of it into Wikipedia. This is unduly difficult as for once in my life I've bought the physical paper item and it's a five hundred page brick, but at least I can use page numbers in the references.

I suspect this is an esoteric enough bit of good scholarly practice that no one's ever thanked you for this, so I'd better do it: thank you for not being one of those people who thinks their citations of 500-page bricks don't need page numbers.