I also loved being able to see who had previously checked out a book and when (especially in school libraries where I probably knew the person...or was the person who'd checked it out before!)

But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...

But I will gladly trade that for the brave new world of having hundreds of books on my kindle. Makes travel so very much better. Never again the packing half my bag with books and still worrying I'll run out halfway through a flight...

Yeah, I love the Kindle app on my phone. And I, too, knew the worry of running out of reading material halfway through a trip.

I have an old card catalog, but you have to line the drawers, because the bottoms aren't solid once you remove the metal pipe that went through the cards. Still nice, though

Yeah, seriously, the advent of ebooks has literally halved my travel luggage. I didn't even take a backup paperback this last flight. Shock!

I think if I could see the records at freelibrary, I am about every fourth person who checks out all the Pratchett books. I am in the process of buying them, but I already owned them, so I am a little slow at doing it. But other than it being dumb to have to redownload instead of being able to just reauthorize, I don't see any harm in continually checking them out. I mean, other than that someone else can't be reading them while I have them checked out. But I'm a fast reader, and I hit the return button, so it's not long.

Hi, my name is Jilli, and I have a problem with storage cabinets.

My parents have what is something like an apothecary cabinet / card catalog cabinet and I have called dibs on it. It's not real and it's not valuable. I just really like it. And I spent a lot of time in libraries. All that information and you could just bounce from one to the next. It was like a printed internet full of potential links to new information.

(They also have a glass double inkwell. Which I also called dibs on. Mostly I just feared they'd randomly get rid of things thinking no one cared. I grew up with us being a polling location on election days and playing with the inkwell. I want it.)

Which thread should I ask about Kindles in? This one or Tech? I'm finally thinking of getting myself one, and am not sure which I want.

Jilli! Pete's Kickstarter Project was one of their "Projects We Love"!

Holy crap! That'll teach me not to read the Kickstarter emails!

I think either one would be appropriate, Jilli! Although I think I did most of my Kindle talking in Tech.

Thanks P-C! I'll scoot over to Tech.