Okay, but we're also in the age where information is literally at our fingertips, an unimaginable wealth of it. I cannot conceive of how I would have researched Midnight Never Come without the Internet; sure, I used print books, too, but those often gave me concepts rather than specific details. I would not have wanted to do this without the OED, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Stellarium, and Google.
So there's a silver lining, at least. ^_^