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The first library catalog was created because finding books by vibes wasn’t working.

✗ FAKE
Libraries have organized collections since antiquity. Callimachus produced the Pinakes catalogue for the Library of Alexandria in the 3rd century BCE, and the claim about vibes is a joke.

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