[JKCalhoun]

"To avoid the tedium, I decided that I would also flip to a random page of every book I shelved and read a random sentence from it."

Also, this is about the lost joy of "browsing".

I wonder how much serendipity played when wandering through a library (or other things in life—even window shopping). But now, everything on the internet, you more or less have to know what it is you're looking for—are rarely "surprised or delighted".

[tombert]

I’m not sure I agree with that.

I’ve found plenty of interesting things by randomly wandering around on Gutenberg.org, completely undirected.

[JKCalhoun]

If they have a sort of "wander UI", that's cool. I'm not sure what that looks like though.