![]() I didn’t like the displays of the first generation of e-book readers. I was never, “ONOES, TEH DIGITAL CANNOT REPLACE MY BELOVED PRINT1111ONE!” Rather, I think it was the limitations of the hardware. There was no political reason that I wasn’t interested. Initially, as a lifelong reader, I wasn’t particularly keen on e-books. But it also keeps me from overreaching – and simultaneously cutting off access to books for other patrons who could be reading them while they’re needlessly in my queue. The limit of 5 books helps ensure that I reach that goal – and that I still have something new to move on to when I’m done reading any given book. In this case, the goal is to finish whatever I’m reading before it’s due. When I have a set goal, I’m much more likely to reach that goal. This limitation helps me to stay focused, much the way deadlines do. Obviously, these aren’t things I want to do. Still, there’s a limit to how much I can read within a 7 or 14 day span – unless, of course, I blow off doing anything else useful. I’ve been told this ever since I was a kid, and objectively, it does seem that this is true. I have been told by lots of people that I read fast. I can choose my lending period: 7 days or 14 days. My library system only allows me to take 5 e-books out at a time. Non-renewable books might seem like a bad thing at first. No trying to remember to call the library to renew your books, either – with my library, at least, they’re non-renewable. No muss, no fuss, and no finding the time to get yourself to the library. When they’re due, they’re due – and they simply expire from your e-book reader of choice. Taking e-books out of the library eliminates that problem. I set reminders for myself on my phone, but they disappear when you swipe them off the screen, and it’s easy to forget them if you don’t tend to them as soon as they pop up. They get even worse if it isn’t just one book. But those $.10 fines add up when you forget for a week. Books, though…you can renew those twice, and then they must be returned.Īt first, I thought a $.10 fine here and there wasn’t such a big deal. For some reason, I was always very good about returning DVDs on time – probably because they’re non-renewable, so I know I have exactly one week in which to watch and return them, every time. So I had to put more effort into remembering to renew things. The big problem I had was that I was no longer IN a library every single workday. Don’t get me wrong there’s nothing wrong with my local publics. When I left library work, my only real recourse was my local public library system. Once I was working in libraries, I either returned or renewed on time – how not, when I was working in one every day? I may have had a fine or two in high school, but nothing serious – and no repeat offenses. I did the same with school libraries until I got to college. And then I’d read them all – and return or renew them on time. (If you haven’t known me a long time, this is especially funny because my first career was in academic libraries.)Īs a kid, I used to take out piles and piles of books at a time. ![]() If you’ve known me a long time, it may come as a surprise to learn that I was a library problem patron.
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