Supermarket: Sadness.

On Jan 25, 2:31?pm, Dave Smith wrote:

Your local library relies on professionals to select which books to
add to their collection. Plus if they have a blanket policy against
accepting books from the community they have an easier time rejecting
vanity press or self-published books, Holocaust denial literature, etc.
 
On 1/27/2011 1:09 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

I own an OED with magnifying glass. Many English majors do/did. I
joined the Book of the Month Club to get mine as a free gift. It came
out cheaper to order a book, quit and keep the OED than it was to buy
one myself. This was in the early 1980's when there was no World Wide
Web and I was working full-time and raising 3 kids as a single mom.

Even with the WWW, ours still gets a lot of use. It doesn't cost me for
a subscription

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On Jan 25, 12:11?pm, Andy wrote:

Oh for God's sake, what did it matter where she paid for her donut?


Maybe she had cabin fever. Old people have feelings, too. Why didn't
you offer to buy the lady lunch or something?


What a bizarre tale. What "little old lady's issue" was still
bothering you? Oh, someone went to a store to buy a donut and it got
you all worked up? Sheesh. Take a Valium.
 
On Jan 25, 3:16?pm, [email protected] (Steve Pope) wrote:

Public libraries are not like Grandma's attic. Nor are they research
libraries. Every book on the shelf has to deserve its spot. So they
weed the collection based on a number of factors, including the number
of times a book circulates in a year.

One common problem is dealing with best sellers. There is a short-term
demand for a large number of copies, which dwindles to one or two (or
none) after a while.
 
On 1/25/2011 2:09 PM, notbob wrote:


I am 100% in agreement. I also find it strange that the very same people
who flaunt their patriotism are often the ones who decry government
spending to help our veterans and active military.

I'm not very pro-government spending on a lot of what the government
wastes money on, but support of our military *and* their families and
caring for the people who have sacrificed to defend our country (whether
I am for or against the particular war) is one place where, if I were in
congress, I'd appropriate the proper funds. Maybe we could take away
cell phones (paid for with tax dollars) for people on Medicaid?


--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
 
On 2011-01-25, Janet Wilder wrote:


Ima geezer on SS, now. I don't wanna get into a big row about it, but
I now have a different outlook. I don't think cell phones are the way
to go, but a landline, yes. Those copper lines are not gonna jes go
away and have paid for themselves. Dirt cheap POTS phone service
should be supported and maybe even subsidized for seniors. Typically,
it is. Tax dollars for cell phones is jes corprate welfare enabled by
greasing dirtbad palms.

nb
 
spamtrap1888 wrote:


Space is a big issue, especially when people expect to be able
to borrow the latest best seller. I worked in a branch of the NYC
library through high school, so I know how hard it is to squeeze those
books in ... they don't give at all! Something has to. You can shuffle
things around but when it comes down to it, you're not going to fit
10 pounds of potatoes in a 5 pound bag.

I donate books to my local library knowing full well they'll likely sell
them for a pittance. I get more space, they make a few bucks, and
someone else gets a book for cheap. It's all good.

nancy
 
ravenlynne wrote:

Yes, that it is very useful to be able to search at home. I do
that frequently. But I also mourn the loss of the old card
catalogs. Come to think of it, I think the one in my hometown
disappeared a while ago.

--
Jean B.
 
"Steve Pope" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...

I'm a volunteer in our village library "book deposit". We accept
donations that are in good shape for our shelves, if they are duplicates,
they go in our book sales. Lots of people drop off old, moldy, smelly books
thinking they are doing us a favour...lol. We put them into recycle bins.
Our library has no paid staff and would have been closed down 14 years ago
if we hadn't stepped up and offered our services. The up side is that they
tore down the old building that housed the volunteer fire dept., library and
community room, and built a nice new building. We don't often turn people
away with donations, just deal with them in the appropriate
manner.....Sharon in Ontario Canada
 
Nancy Young wrote:

Well, what you say is true for a library, but I think cards (in
addition to cataloging things on librarything) will be a step up
in my organizational system. At least I HOPE that's the case.

--
Jean B.
 
On 26/01/2011 10:25 AM, spamtrap1888 wrote:


They are hard to figure out sometimes. Our local library devotes far too
much area and too many children's books.. IMO. It's great for kids to
read, but how many new picture books do they need to introduce them to
reading skills? They wouldn't need so many if they had reasonable
limits on loans. I have seen families check out dozens of books at a
time. When my son was young we read to him every night and he was an
avid reader. He still is. But we didn't check out books by the dozen.
Maybe it was because we read him books with stories and not just a bunch
of picture books with captions. No need to delude yourself into thinking
you are reading when you're really just looking at pictures.
 
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:28:25 -0600, Janet Wilder
wrote:


The very first thing we do is take away that better than Cadillac
health care our senators and representatives get the moment they take
office. Make them go to the open market for health care, the same way
they want everyone else to. After that, we'll take away full
retirement pay for life from everyone who served less than two terms
(make it retroactive if it's to mean anything) and give graduated
retirement checks, just like everyone else gets, depending on how long
they served after two terms, to everyone else.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:28:21 -0800 (PST), Kalmia
wrote:



Reminds me of one day I had such an opportunity. I had to pay a $26
library assessment for a missing book, and I found I had not enough in
my wallet, except for a single $100 bill. I offered it to the clerk,
who told me they couldn't change a bill that large. Something made me
say, "The rest can be a donation to the library" and the woman stared
at me as though I had 3 heads. She ran back to the office and said
that was ok and cleared up my lost-book fine, glowing.

On my way out to the parking lot, a woman in an SUV stopped and got my
attention. I thought maybe I'd offended her somehow. Turned out she
was behind me in line for the checkout and saw the incident and told
me that somebody ought to tell me "thank you", and that "more people
should...", etc. Embarrassed me no end. When I told the wife what I'd
done, she simply said "You did right."

I couldn't stop the tears, that such a simple thing was so damned
rare. So I gave the library @ $75! Who doesn't blow that much on one
dinner out? You'd have thought I actually brought about world peace!

I'm still embarrassed about it, but I'd do it again.

Someone once said something to the effect: "Lord, if there is any good
I can do, let me do it now, for I may not pass this way again."

Alex, embarrassed to tell the story, but still not understanding why.
 
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:28:21 -0800 (PST), Kalmia wrote:


Or, after she paid, he could have reached over and grabbed it, and
then squeezed the shit out of it.

It's best that he just let her go on her way peacefully.
 
Dave Smith wrote in news:ppj0p.33606$Zm4.1108
@unlimited.newshosting.com:


I have both the SOED and the complete. I stopped using anything else when
I realized that Webster's characterized the word "neighbour" as a British
variant of US spelling.

In French, I use the 1952 Petit Larousse Illustr? which is the standard for
crosswords (unless otherwise stated).

--

On the first day God created the sun - so the Devil countered
and created sunburn. On the second day God created sex. In
response the Devil created marriage. On the third day God created
an economist. This was a tough one for the Devil, but in the end
and after a lot of thought he created a second economist!

http://www.blabbinit.com/content/god-created-economist
 
On Jan 25, 12:09?pm, notbob wrote:

I'm trying to wrap my mind around having a job without a paycheck.
I've heard that some fancy restaurants did not pay their waiters,
figuring the tips would sustain them, but I don't see how it applies
to a bagboy job for which no one I know ever tipped in their lives.



Growing up, everyone's dad I knew was a veteran. They got cheap home
loans, free college educations, and lifelong medical treatment.
 
Boron Elgar wrote:

LOL! Well, one advantage *I* see is that a hard copy would exist
if there was some online calamity. I like having back-up systems.

--
Jean B.
 
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