My library card's used exclusively for free login to Oxford English Dictionary, and PressReader. I've donated books to the library, but never got around to actually borrowing any.
Really good idea to make sure to be a presence in the library!!! I used to go all the time with my kids, but as they got older and life got more complicated(like the status it's complicated) I haven't been but I think that's a great idea! Thank you this is why I really like blue sky-new easy ideas
i know how you feel. i am already a heavy library user, but i just joined costco today, and will be transitioning target/walmart/amazon type business i would have conducted to costco. i am asking myself what took so long?
We recently gave up target and Amazon (never much of a Walmart family due to inconvenience) and joined Costco. Trying to use CVS as well for other basics
I took a walk with my Mom; on my last visit; to the Library to see the different services they provide. She volunteers at the Shepherd Senior Center on the other side of the parking lot.
When I was growing up, we had a library that overlooked a river in Maine. My mother used to take us there weekly and it was a highlight for us. As I've aged, I've continued to love going to the library. Also, Moira, check out the LIbby App - digital books through your local public library.
Omg! Make sure to check and see if that have other stuff too! DVDs, magazines, cds, games, board games, video games, power tools, instruments and seeds!
It’s like a free trip to a toy store. You can have any of the books and they are free! Movies, audiobooks, music, mine loans backpack equipment and state parks passes!
Sometimes I go in for the paper and the need to browse stacks but I can't fight the convenience of carrying a few books in my pocket for the train ride or random coffee-shop stops.
Supercharge you card and lighten your load at the same time.
You’re good. Embarrassing is the guy across from me at work who claims he hasn’t read a book since college, as if it is a stunning personal accomplishment.
So many services beyond books, too. My local library has free zoo passes, a Glowforge for patrons to use, thermal cameras to check out and so much more!
1. Not embarrassing. Wonderful 😘2. Try linking your library card to free Libby and Hoopla apps to borrow your books, magazines and audiobooks right onto your devices.
Your library may have other resources too! IE the Toronto library even has a 3D printer, musical instruments to borrow, dvds, arduino, community events and courses, free passes to art galleries and museums...
Treat yourself to the #LibbyApp
You can listen to thousands of audio books, as well as read tens of thousands of books, for free on your phone, pad, computer.
I practically lived in public libraries all through school, our local Brooklyn, then NYPL. I was supposed to be studying engineering in college but I would borrow books on calligraphy and Rococo architecture.
Congrats I am 65 and have had one since 5 years old. I have voted for libraries every election. I remember my second grade teacher making sure everyone had a card and how to use the catalog to find a book. All my kids and grandkids have cards I made sure. The world of knowledge is now open to you
If my library doesn’t have a title, the ‘notify me’ smart tag lets them know I want it. If they order the book, I get a notification when it arrives. Love it!
isn’t it amazing? People don’t realize all the amazing things you can do with a library card besides get a book they have events, classes, tax help - there’s so much stuff.
I’ve had a library card forever and I’m a variety of locations but I got Libby last year and absolutely drunk with power! Max holds, Max borrows like all the time
Except I play my Libby audiobooks in the car. Free audiobooks linked to your library card with Libby. Yes, authors get royalties from the library Libby licenses
Get drunk on books. Doesn't matter what books, just read. I have books I've read multiple times and look forward to reading again. I actually have multiple copies of the same book because I've worn them out.
Congratulations. You might like all the power your card comes with. If it gets lost or stolen, report it immediately to the library as it is like a credit card.
I was always so proud of my dog-eared, crumpled, dirty card when I pulled it out to borrow a book. When my county switched to an app, it just didn’t feel quite as nice to flash it at the librarian. How would she know I’m a book fiend?
Also if you’re doing any kind of online research and have to access something in a (paid) academic journal most large library systems (big cities or counties) will have digital subscriptions to those academic databases that you can get to with your library card!
The exciting thing is you can check out even more than books at many libraries! ebooks, instruments, garden tools. I checked out a high powered telescope at my library. (in addition to many many books)
We had library cards as kids and my mom (working as a registered nurse and physical therapist in the early 50’s) made sure we got there every week! Summer reading programs fueled us, and now my daughter is a reader and my grands. Our library has audio books too - reading is a lifelong passion 📚💖
Omg! I remember the first time I checked out a novel from the adult section. I still remember how much I loved that novel. Can’t remember the title but I remember that feeling!
Libraries fueled my brain as a girl. I took out the maximum number every time mom and I went. I think it was 8 or 9. I liked piling them up in column to carry in front of me, so I had to crane my neck around it.
Me too. So proud of that card when I was little. Got my kids their’s once they were in grade school. Parks passes too. State & county. This land is OUR land.
Borrow a copy of "Fahrenheit 451" and parade it around in your public square! Openly and everything!
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I think I read on here that that's actually one of the books that's on some of these schools banned lists, which of course is the height of irony. Towering infernos of irony.
Congrats. Some libraries allow you to join them as they may have different books. Also you haven’t yet download the Libby app so you listen to audiobooks if you like those.
This is awesome and not embarrassing at all. NEVER too late for a library card. Great community resource and way to connect within your neighborhood. Enjoy and happy reading !!!
We need a grass roots campaign to create free libraries aka the little boxes you see in people's yards with books as if he keeps going this way Republican states will gut library budgets cause they can't control them. Rise of Nazis and control over books similar. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zn8sgk7/revision/3
I have been blessed by my parents in many ways. One of the best is that they borrowed books from the library on a weekly basis and I caught the bug from them at an early age
That is an interesting difference in culture. Here it is completely normal to have a library card latest at age 7, as we would do school trips to library to pick books for reading classes. Many would have one already earlier than that.
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Glorious.
And it’s MINE
AND YOURS
ITS ALL OF OURS
FOR BASICALLY FREE
*evil cackle*
and the best part is
NO ONE CAN STOP ME
Audiobooks galore, if you’re into that thing, too.
Brilliant.
Whether you use it or not the fact that you have one releases funding. For libraries 👍🏼
Good job.
Sometimes I go in for the paper and the need to browse stacks but I can't fight the convenience of carrying a few books in my pocket for the train ride or random coffee-shop stops.
Supercharge you card and lighten your load at the same time.
You can listen to thousands of audio books, as well as read tens of thousands of books, for free on your phone, pad, computer.
Libraries are havens of calm and knowledge.
If my library doesn’t have a title, the ‘notify me’ smart tag lets them know I want it. If they order the book, I get a notification when it arrives. Love it!
NOW... get more people to sign up and you can tell MoonPie that is what you DID this week! 😆
Resources!
“Read” classics I’d never gotten to, explored new-to-me authors, and took deep dives into my favorites.
And I’m still going strong.
The depth and breadth of the selections is amazing … I can even grab current bestsellers!
But I will say I was really pleasantly surprised at how enjoyable I found Proust.
Oh, and if you ever get a chance to hear Toni Morrison narrate one of her books, you are in for a treat: she has a voice like a cello!
I will get a Toni Morrison narrated book on my Libby/library request queue stat!
Have a great day.
You can listen to a sample here:
https://share.libbyapp.com/title/109825
I was always so proud of my dog-eared, crumpled, dirty card when I pulled it out to borrow a book. When my county switched to an app, it just didn’t feel quite as nice to flash it at the librarian. How would she know I’m a book fiend?
So much potential for libraries to improve the quality of life.
Libraries come with Librarians, one of my favorite sub-types of human.
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I think I read on here that that's actually one of the books that's on some of these schools banned lists, which of course is the height of irony. Towering infernos of irony.
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Knowledge is power
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zn8sgk7/revision/3
I mean they are literally giving away free books (for 2 weeks)