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
Mal: Well, you were right about this being a bad idea. Zoe: Thanks for sayin', sir.
'Serenity'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Jan 29, 2013 4:35:11 pm PST #20354 of 28350
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Liese S. - Jan 29, 2013 4:51:46 pm PST #20355 of 28350
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
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.
Cass - Jan 29, 2013 6:56:27 pm PST #20356 of 28350
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
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.)
Atropa - Jan 31, 2013 9:41:03 am PST #20357 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
sumi - Jan 31, 2013 9:44:46 am PST #20358 of 28350
Art Crawl!!!
Jilli! Pete's Kickstarter Project was one of their "Projects We Love"!
Atropa - Jan 31, 2013 9:49:10 am PST #20359 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Holy crap! That'll teach me not to read the Kickstarter emails!
Polter-Cow - Jan 31, 2013 10:00:07 am PST #20360 of 28350
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I think either one would be appropriate, Jilli! Although I think I did most of my Kindle talking in Tech.
Atropa - Jan 31, 2013 10:26:00 am PST #20361 of 28350
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Thanks P-C! I'll scoot over to Tech.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2013 1:03:59 pm PST #20362 of 28350
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I started getting getting choked up when I was reading Augustus and Hazel's perfect dinner in Amsterdam.
It made me remember the first time I read a book that really gutted me and that was when I was reading The World According to Garp and I got to the part where Garp says, "I mith him."
Amy - Jan 31, 2013 1:08:01 pm PST #20363 of 28350
Because books.
Wait till you get to the end.