I hate licorice too, and I don't think I could ever drink that.

I thought so too. But I was willing to do a lot of things in order to get up from the couch, and I had nastier remedies in the past - ones where it doesn't help if you hold your breath or not. At least in tea it's 90% smell, so you can control it a little bit.

I'm with Pix. Nom.

You bunch of sick, twisted people.

I love anise when it's used as a spice, but hate licorice. I have layers.

you can get right downtown to the Central Library

Which is a gorgeous and cool building too.

Licorice - no like. In Wm. Joyce's children's book Santa Calls they chase away the evil snow witch by pelting her with licorice.

I use my library constantly. And my library has obliged me by, once again, building a whole new beautiful library within two years of me moving to town. Back when I was in New Mexico, susanw always used to wonder why all the materials she needed were coming from the Farmington library. It was because that library freaking rocked. And I knew the staff, so I always could get stuff I wanted added to the collection.
 
This new library is not quite as awesome, but it is beautiful. And it still has the same librarians as when it was a teeny tiny library and they made recommendations for me because they knew what I liked. They don`t really do that anymore as they`re clearly serving a much larger population. But it`s pretty decent just the same. I do also download Project Gutenberg books, but as I don`t have a reader I tend to forget I`ve done so and they languish on my hard drive. The SO`s phone can read docs and text and if mine did, I think I`d use it that way.

I like Liquorice taste a lot. But it's not for everyone. More for me, I guess.

Mm, licorice. Mm, Good n' Plenty candy.

mmm, licorice.

mmm, libraries.

Ill is more or less gone in the old sense of the word around here. Now, Our whole collection floats . Which if you borrow within the county system -- wherever you return the book it stay s until someone takes it out. Fantastic for little libraries like mine. and when we get to much stuff we just send it to the big library. then we belong to another system where yo can borrow from a whole bunch of other libraries for free- but the late fees and lost fees are very high.

ILL here is very easy - you can have any book in the Brooklyn system sent to any Brooklyn library, and they'll email/call/text you when it gets there.

The one annoying thing is that the boroughs all have completely separate library systems, so there's no ILL between Manhattan and Brooklyn. (Understandable because when the library systems were created, all the boroughs were separate cities. But still.)