Libraries

Pre-internet-as-now, when I was in high school around the millennium, I had two library cards at my local library - they fudged for me so I could reserve more books on inter-library-loan.

I was checking out my max books (5) every other day. I walked everywhere and hauled the books to school (12 blocks), then walked to the library after school (6 blocks not toward home) to swap them.

The librarians used to ask me for recommendations because I was going through them so fast and focused mostly on sci-if/fantasy, which wasn’t what they themselves were reading. I loved talking to them about books.

I haven’t been to a library in many years because my life has changed a lot, and also because I have 180k ebooks on my tablet, which is more than I could get through in my life even if I read one a day, which I can’t.

But it’s no fun to read shit I downloaded a decade ago, so when 02OCT hits, I plan to go hit up my local library to volunteer, I’ll have time and I need a change of pace.