Lydia: Its removal from Burma is a felony and when triggered it has the power to melt human eyeballs. Giles: In that case I've severely underpriced it.

'Potential'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


DavidS - Jan 29, 2013 6:16:01 am PST #20334 of 28348
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Concur with you both. I always enjoyed - particularly at college - looking through the card stamps and seeing a friend read that book a couple years previously. And learning how to use the card catalog gave me a sense of mastery at an early age. I knew how to find things at the library without asking. And I used it a lot.


Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2013 7:01:15 am PST #20335 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I've finished Cold Kiss and Glass Heart! Oh, hookers and blow. I don't even remember how that got started.

Also, I'm fifty pages into Redshirts and loving it so far.


Liese S. - Jan 29, 2013 8:04:54 am PST #20336 of 28348
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh, yeah, the day I learned to use the card catalog was a Good Day. As was the day I worked out that the "adult" section was not actually an enforced security area.


javachik - Jan 29, 2013 9:14:29 am PST #20337 of 28348
Our wings are not tired.

Oh, yeah, the day I learned to use the card catalog was a Good Day. As was the day I worked out that the "adult" section was not actually an enforced security area.

When it is, you can just wear your invisibility cloak!!

AHAHAHAHAHAA my first ever Harry Potter allusion. /HPnewbies4evah


Polter-Cow - Jan 29, 2013 9:16:01 am PST #20338 of 28348
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

One of us!


erikaj - Jan 29, 2013 9:55:16 am PST #20339 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!

I feel sad about the Barnes & Noble closings...I like the one in my neighborhood, even though I haven't been in for months.


DavidS - Jan 29, 2013 10:55:23 am PST #20340 of 28348
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I feel sad about the Barnes & Noble closings...

Every bookstore closing is a like a stab to my heart. But I'll be really bummed if the B&N in El Cerrito closes, since that's chiefly where I cool my heels when Emmett's got baseball practice.


erikaj - Jan 29, 2013 10:59:52 am PST #20341 of 28348
Always Anti-fascist!

wrod.


Kat - Jan 29, 2013 11:12:24 am PST #20342 of 28348
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I miss card catalogs. For whatever reason it was easier for me to track stuff down paging through one card at a time than calling up a web page with a million options on it. Plus, the visceral feel of handling the drawers and cards was nice.

ITA with this. Granted, this marks me Of An Age... but I love card catalogs. At SF Public Library, they used to have an art installation of those cards.

I have a 4 drawer card catalog wood box at home. I want to use it for something, but can't think of what. To store wine, maybe?


Strix - Jan 29, 2013 11:33:08 am PST #20343 of 28348
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I sincerely hope the B&N on the Plaza in KC doesn't close. I think it probably does a healthy business, though.