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• Nov. 10, 2007 - Overdue Books Again
I love books. I used to go to the library as a kid every week and the school library every other day. My first job in college was in a bookstore. Did I mention I love books. My home library probably rivals the library of many small towns. I manage to find more books at yard sales because frankly I must really need a book to pay full price and I will still try to get a better price on amazon. Yet I still go to the library. Where else can you borrow a book for a few weeks and then beg for more to take home. Oh thats right begging isn't allowed at our library. Good thing those librarians understand us book junkies. Oh I think they may be book junkies themselves and are supporting their habit. All I have to do is show them my book junkie card and they let me take home books. The down side of my book junkie habit is those pesky late fees. Yep I try to look noble and say I am just supporting the library with my fees, but those librarians look down on you when you do that. Yep right over their eyeglasses from behiend that tall counter or leaning back in that library chair. Being the shrinking violet I am I plop down my quarter a day fine and mumble about supporting the library or forgetting what day or year it was at that moment. You have to understand I sometimes have 15 or 25 books out at any one time. I tried to only go once a week, but I book I ordered would always come and in and I would just have to have it for a unit or project we where learning about.
Does this sound like you. At least the part about overdue book and fines? I found a solution or at least something good until the library will due home pickup.
Drum roll please.......
Libraryelf.com
This cool site will not only check my library card but all library cards that I enter and will send me notices when things are due, when things are being held. It will even due rss feeds and send text messages to your cell phone, not just plain ol email. At first my library wasn't part of the system, but I emailed them and they had my local library added within 24 hours. Sweet City! Best of all it is free. So how do they make a living. Amazon ads. But they don't seem intrusive. I will probably but a few books through their amazon link. Doesn't cost me anymore with Amazon and will keep the service going. And no I don't get kick backs from this review, I just think this is the next best thing since, I don't know, libraries. |
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• Nov. 9, 2007 - Untitled Comment
Betty