Supermarket: Sadness.

Nancy Young wrote:

Yeah, I hear you re the shoveling. I had to go out three times to
get my driveway into passable shape. The walks still aren't done.

I used to spend MUCH time in libraries. Most of that was going
through cookbooks and cooking magazine (from the accessible
shelves and the closed stacks). I also spent a couple of years on
genealogy. Ah. Books! I just love them.

--
Jean B.
 
Out of curiosity.... why do they need to be in "good shape" AFAIAC, so
long at they are not falling apart, missing pages and.or defaced, they
are readable. There may be someone out there who would like to read it,
and since it didn't cost anything, and if there is room on the
shelf..... why not?
 
gloria.p wrote:

I feel a bit guilty, and there is a fine balance between giving
libraries a bit of revenue and being inconsiderate about keeping
the books too long.

I do donate books, and I have donated time to libraries. I also
am a "friend" of a few local libraries.

--
Jean B.
 
gloria.p wrote:

One of our lodge groups does military outreach. They assemble doantion
boxes for deployed troops. We've done the same at work and church. The
boxes include beef jerky, carpentry and other magazines ensured to not
have pictures that get censored, socks and briefs in military colors,
energy bars, energy drinks. There are several lists of suggested items.
Books like mysteries are in the list. Thrift shop mysteries rule
because the troops benefit and so does the local charity.
 
spamtrap1888 wrote:


Bagger jobs at military commissaries are coveted jobs! It is often held
by spouses or retirees who make do make only tips but they seem to add
up. Occasionally children of soldiers living overseas could pull a shift
for fund raising events. The tips add up. I tip about $4-5 each time
when I buy couple hundred dollars of groceries.
 
On Jan 26, 8:25?am, Dave Smith wrote:

So libraries should not try to accommodate this important segment of
their patrons? Parents buy amazingly few books for their children:
public libraries have always been the biggest market for children's
literature by far. To the not-yet-literate child, he idea that books
contain fascinating stories ican be better conveyed through a picture
book that he can decode for himself, than by listening to a parent
droning on.
 
On Jan 26, 8:29?am, Dave Smith wrote:

Mmm... the musty aroma of a used bookstore filled with moldy
treasures. Who wouldn't want that for their public library?
 
On 2011-01-25, Chemiker wrote:


I can't imagine why. I've given thousands of dollars worth of books
to library. I also occasionally buy their overstock. I've checked
out tens of thousands of dollars worth of books since I was a kid in
grade school. Librarians were one of the few groups to stand up to
govt fascism when it came to the Patriot Act. Seems like a win-win
deal to me. ;)

nb --support your local library!!
 
Felice wrote:
I have one with the magnifying glass. The two volumes really need
to be on top of something of a height that is conducive to reading
them. They are too heavy to comfortable heave about. I have my
Webster's unabridged on a stand, but I don't think I want THREE
stands. Or do I?

--
Jean B.
 
On 25 Jan 2011 20:09:20 GMT, notbob wrote:



My nephew is on his way back from Afghanistan as I type, he'll be back in the
USA on the 5th. . He's finished his 8 yr. stint in the military, and the three
tours in Iraq and Afghanistan he did. He'd stay in if he could afford it, but
with a wife and kids, a mortgage, it gets harder as the kids grow up and want
to play sports. He's already been offered a job making four times the money in
the private sector, so it's a no brainer which way he's going.
 
On 26/01/2011 12:03 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:

It doesn't surprise me that libraries are the biggest market for
children's books. It fits right in with my point about them buying way
too many. I never suggested that they should not have any children's
books at all, but I do think that they spend too much on and devote too
much shelf space to books that are primarily picture books and have
little to do with reading.



That is an interesting theory. I don't buy it, but it's interesting.
 
Boron Elgar wrote:

The same happens with "sport fiching". The first time I heard the term
I thought the speaker meant boats and strings ending up with recipes.
Sublte difference in pronunciation. A lot of books and magazines end up
on microfiche. Speed reading and skimming through entire years of
journals can end up fascinating.

I have tried the same with microfilm but I never managed the same
control as with a fiche reader. I used a fiche reader a lot when I was
in the military so I got skilled at skimming to search for items. Move
to a location, glance and skim, decide what direction to move next, zoom
when close. With a microfilm machine it only seems to move forward or
back on a motorized spool. Different skill to acquire.
 
blake murphy wrote:



I read "How NOT to step on landmines."

You obviously can't read or see!

You're such a miserable low life!

You're way are below your papa's worst hopes!

You legless, stupid fidiot!!!

Poor thing!

Andy
 
Doug wrote on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:26:17 +0000 (UTC):



You could adjust the speed on a microfilm reader and I found that I
could get a lot of information at a moderate speed. I'd stop the reader
when I needed to study the page.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
 
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