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Libraries of tomorrow

Library, Hermitage of st Bernardine, Stroud, NSW | Photo by Friar's Balsam

A random thought/idea came to me today.

Last year Amazon began allowing loaning books between Kindle users. In addition they just announced (this week I believe) that libraries will now be able to purchase Kindle versions, for patrons to borrow and read on any Kindle enabled device.

(FREE software is available to read Kindle books on iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Mac, Blackberry, Android and Windows Phone devices.)

You can loan a book to anyone with an e-mail address via the Kindle Manager (as long as the publisher has enabled lending).

So as I was thinking about how this might be an awesome avenue for sharing ideas and material with not just my friends next door, but my friends across the pond, I started thinking…
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My Ode to Half Price Books

Brandi has a post on loving the library… our library – well honestly I haven’t visited it yet. But I can tell you, the Waxahachie library isn’t much to write about. I’ll have to see about the Red Oak library before too long.

Instead, I’ve developed a nice love/hate relationship with Half Price Books. So now I share with you My Ode to Half Price Books.

Oh Half Price Books, how many great books you sell.
You sell them at half price so they can be loved twice as much.
Yet when I bring you books for you to buy, you buy them for pennies on the dollar.
I bring you four boxes of books – mainly medical books – and you give me 16 dollar.
I bring you $18 and you give me two books.
I love you, yet I hate you.
But until a new love comes along I will continue to buy your books.
And continue to give you a look.
I just hope you can love me the same.

For the record I got a low-carb cookbook, Time to Cook Low Carb and Lone Star Nation, by H.W. Brands for $18 Friday night