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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: fightingquaker13 on September 29, 2012, 06:29:46 PM
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This is an off shoot over the postal service debate. Me, I prefer ink on paper, so I'm in favor of the USPS (please keep comments on that institution to that thread). Some who oppose it say its obsolete, no reason for the citizens to subsidize out dated tech, its all digital now. So here's an honest question. How many of you (honestly) have a library card and borrow books? I'm one. I am curious to hear the responses.
FQ13
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Make that a double. Don't watch the Idiot Box at all. Can't afford all the books I have and will read. Some things are just not available online.
Edit: the Post Office and the Public Library are apples and oranges, one actually fulfills a need.
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I do as well though I haven't used it much the last few months.
It's my tribute to Ray Bradbury..... ;)
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I have had one for several years. Don't use it much. My reading is sporadic. May not read any books for several years at a time the alll of a sudden I'm reading 2 or 3 at the same time. Back when i was in junior high school I went thru the entire science fiction section in on summer at the city library.
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Barrowing books is very rare, but countless hours in the refrence only section.
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Not since 98..
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The last time I used my library card was to checkout books on CDs for long road trips. Now that I no longer have a reason to make that trip I have not used it in a couple of years.
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The local librarians know me by name, one of them knew me by name 20 years ago in another town .
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Nope...no card here.
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Have one over 20 years and I use it not as much as I like but I do go occasionally....
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Happen to have a Kindle and you can get many books loaded onto your Kindle from the Library.
They poof in whatever the loan time is and if you haven't finished it, you get in line to check out the digital copy again...just like a paper book.
The Library will have just so many copies, or maybe just one, but they can only have that number "out" at the same time.
It does mean you never have to take the books back to the Library so they are never overdue.
They last forever, can't get stolen or lost, require no manual re-stacking, and take up no measurable space.
Available for other eBook readers also.
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No library card.......I like books (even though I'm posting this from a Kindle).... but usually just buy the ones I would read.
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I haven't had a library card since high school - more than 30 years ago. Got in the habit of buying what books I needed in college and continued buying until I had to move a few times... nothing seems heavier than a box of books. I now use a Kindle and love it!
Solus has already mentioned some of the benefits of the Kindle and what I find very useful is the ability to adjust font size, words per line, background color, and brightness. A dictionary look-up feature is only a long-press away. And buying new material couldn't be easier. New books can be downloaded from Amazon in a matter of minutes and at a price that is usually considerably less. And if you have multiple reading devices or the free Kindle app on your computer, Amazon Whispernet will keep all of the devices synchronized so you can continue reading on any device no matter where you are. It's amazing technology.
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My library "card" is digital. I haven't been there for a while, but my wife gets downloads periodically, and she tells me I'm still in the system.
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haven't had a card since I left Texas, but I may get one here in Fl. I've moved around so much lately that I wouldn't have time for a regular book and be able to return it in time because of travel, but with my wife coming here to the States more often I may get back into it.
deep
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I have a library card and I do know how to use it! :)
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I have had a library card my whole life. I am also a Kindle user. I do read a mix of Kindle and print. I like to browse the periodicals at the library. Our library is next door to a homeless shelter, on any given rainy or cold or hot day the comfortable upholstered chairs will be taken up with sleeping homeless men and women. They can be quite intimidating when they are awakened.
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No library card. It's either a purchased book, or Kindle download.
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This Rabbit's a regular reader of books, but I generally buy them or trade with others.
Bunny has a Kindle. She got it because she spends several months each year in Bangladesh with her orphans and cannot pack enough books to keep herself entertained. (check: www.charfassonchildrensfund.org )
I don't much care for the Kindle. There is something about a real book that is more satisfying than reading from a display. Part of it is the tactile nature of the pages. Part of it may be the scent of ink and paper. Part of it may just be that I am a certified old curmudgeon who drags his feet as we progress into the future.
I do have a smart phone, though.
Now shut up and get off my lawn.
Crusader
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I've had a card for the local library for a few years. I got it to read Stephen Hunter and Vince Flynn's books and that is about all I use it for.
I have read Unintended Consequences on my Evo and will probably get an Iphone soon and use it for an ebook reader, not sure if that will affect my library card usage though, I like ink and paper and when the power goes out forever I will still have ink and paper ;D
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I have one, have had one, for many years. Especially since my wife is a librarian. It's sort of required.
However, the local county deletes inactive cards after about 6 months, so since I only go once every year or two, I have to get a new card each time. The last time, I was there the lady at checkout, said for me to check out a cheap, trashy dime paperback, then throw it away and ignore the fine. Because I would then have an unpaid "fine" the system will never purge my record. Plus the fine would never amount to more the $2.50 (value of the cheap paperback) and they'd never pursue any "legal action".
Oh the last item I checked out was Unintended Consequences. A subversive book that I'm sure landed me on the watch list. Currently going for between $100 and $300 now. Not available on iKindebookpad thingys.
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I get a lot of books to read from a buddy of mine. He gets them from friends and relatives also. Sometimes I will find something I enjoy in a series, triology or whatever and I can get the others from the library so a LC is a must for me.
FWIW
Richard
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I used to get books from a guy my mom grew up with in Minnesota! Her second uncle I think, a guy by the name of Schulz, I think his first name was Charlie...some of you may have seen his works!
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Light reading at best! The characters never changed but I never got tired of Lucy pulling the football just in time! ;D
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I used to get books from a guy my mom grew up with in Minnesota! Her second uncle I think, a guy by the name of Schulz, I think his first name was Charlie...some of you may have seen his works!
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Light reading at best! The characters never changed but I never got tired of Lucy pulling the football just in time! ;D
I don't know how long ago that was Tim, but I was living in CA when Charles M Schultz died there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz
Schulz and his family returned to Minneapolis and stayed until 1958. They then moved to Sebastopol, California, where Schulz built his first studio. It was here that Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was eventually used in a later documentary, Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. The original documentary is available on DVD from the Charles M. Schulz Museum.
Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, the same year his Sebastopol studio burned down. By 1969, Schulz had moved to Santa Rosa, California, where he lived and worked until his death.
Charles Schulz died in his sleep at home around 9:45 p.m. on February 12, 2000. Although he was dying of cancer, he suffered a fatal heart attack. The last original Peanuts strip was published the very next day, on Sunday, February 13, 2000, just hours after his death the night before. Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California.[29]
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Mom was born in Minneapolis in 1926 and her sister was 10 or 12 years older. Mom is half Norwegian and my grandma was a Halverson. We used to get boxes of books when we were kids at X-mas until the late sixties. My mom and her sister tried to visit him in Santa Rosa back in the mid 80's but to no avail. He wasn't in town at the time. Other than that, most of what I know of their relationship died with her. I suppose I could get some details from Madelyn (my aunt and Godmother) but it's old history now.
Coincidentally, my mom called me Sparky when I was a kid... :D
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Mom was born in Minneapolis in 1926 and her sister was 10 or 12 years older. Mom is half Norwegian and my grandma was a Halverson. We used to get boxes of books when we were kids at X-mas until the late sixties. My mom and her sister tried to visit him in Santa Rosa back in the mid 80's but to no avail. He wasn't in town at the time. Other than that, most of what I know of their relationship died with her. I suppose I could get some details from Madelyn (my aunt and Godmother) but it's old history now.
Coincidentally, my mom called me Sparky when I was a kid... :D
Get the details while you still can . It is history and put a personal face on an historic figure.
In fact, get them to do a video or tape about what America used to be like, it's "living history".
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Get the details while you still can . It is history and put a personal face on an historic figure.
In fact, get them to do a video or tape about what America used to be like, it's "living history".
Madelyn has made some history all of her own. She's been an author most of her life and is probably in every grade school library in the US with her line of youth textbooks.
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I've got a library card and I'm not afraid to use it.
It's one of the things I'm happy to contribute tax money to.