Everyday brilliance

[goddessdster]

My dear friend Anna Marie wrote a wonderful piece about the value of your local library here. Interestingly, annlarimer and I were chatting last night about her library use (versus mine, which is nil, because I'm stupid) to read books for free. Huh. Read books for free? Boy, am I stupid.*

*In my defense, I frequented the library quite a bit in the

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[kimboosan]

Libraries! Like crack for bibliophiles! I think the thing that made us the most bitter about moving to a small town was...okay, honestly, it was the lack of good restaurants compared to where we came from. But SECOND to that was the greatly reduced library and, shockingly, greatly reduced library hours. WTF you close EARLY on Saturday and you don't open until 1pm on Sunday? WHAT?

What makes me sad is how the budgets for libraries are constantly getting slashed because "people aren't using them" yet every time I go, the place is packed. What aren't we using? Never that we go do we not walk out with six books between us and several CDs of music.

Libraries.... *happy sigh*

[lozziecap]

The one thin that there is NOT, within walking distance from my house, is a library. There is a mobile one, that comes once a week, but it is mainly equipped to cater to the needs of the people in sheltered accommodation. Or perhaps those now residing in the graveyard. I'm talking *Yawn City*

That is probably why I spend so much money now with Amazon. Damn you, Amazon One-Click.

[annlarimer]

My office is a five-minute walk from the main branch. \o/

[sanguine_piskie]

Glad you liked it.

P.S. typing this from the library because among thier other awesome traits their printers always have ink.

[iugularemortuos]

Libraries are great! It's such a bummer that a lot of them seem to be almost doing away with books and going digital. I can't imagine anyone coming up with a better idea than a book. Sure, PDFs and online journals are nice, but a lot of the real enjoyment to be had from books is that they're something you can touch, flip through, pile up, organize, re-read, mark places in, take on the train, underline things in pencil, fall asleep reading and many other delightful things. And while you shouldn't draw in library books...where's the fun in PDFs and those weird little iPod-looking electronic book readers?

I also work in a library and it's awesome. It's only a little one, but mmm. Library.

[aeniron]

for some reason almost everytime I chekc out a book from the library I never read it, it just sits there. I AM however alll about checking out DVDs and basically just HANGING out in them, because there is something sort of sanctuary like about libraries