Susan1
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i didn't want to quote your whole post, so this will be a mess. And my hands are so cold, I seem to be going back and retyping everything twice.
Kids don't do homework in libraries anymore. Maybe in the main branch downtown or something. Any "kids" I've seen on the computer were playing games, and a lot of adults.
Anyway, off on a side road (but related) - there's a cartoon on FB about not using the self-checkout at the grocery store where the person is saying "I don't work here". And a big long discussion - people like them, people don't.........One guy started a thing about people don't mind pumping their own gas so why should they mind checking out their own groceries. That's an entirely different thing. And then I was thinking maybe that's where the demise of customer service started - pumping your own gas. I even used to go in to pay afterwards.
There was an episode of That 70's Show, where they went out to eat at a place like a Friday's and the waiter said that they weren't allowed to bring a salad to the table and Kitty could go make her own salad at the salad bar. And they complained that she could make her own salad at home for free. So maybe that's when "customer service" started going downhill. And then technology took over and people don't have to do things right because it's the computer's fault. And look it up yourself. And don't take your face out of your own screen. And this message just locked up, so I will stop complaining and go read my broken book.
I reserve them online and it's set up to go to my home branch. I can change the branch any time. You used to have to take 7-day books back where you took them out, but not anymore.However, it is not possible to pick up books up at any library other than the ones at which the books were reserved. I wish that would change.
Yes, that's exactly what I've been doing for years. I had one for authors that I was current on (Janet Evanovich) and one for new old ones that I was starting from the beginning. I go to the Books In Order website and copy over all the titles for the author. And I have a separate page for cozies. I combined the first two. I have a separate one for all the J. A. Jance books though. I'm current on all of them except the J. P. Beaumont ones because most of the older ones have had to be interlibraried so they get sidelined while I am reading books I can get to faster.For that reason, I always check the databases of the libraries near me to see if books I'm interested in are available. And I have kept lists of books I want to read -
Yeah, Janet Evanovich again. I worked at our book sale at work during a charity sale week (and headed our bake sale on another day). Someone brought her 7th book and said I would like it. So I bought it. She was already up to 10, but I had to go back and start with the first one. That was back before you could do things online, so I had to have the library find each one. I don't think I got caught up till about book 13.Also, I like reading series, because I a) can get comfortable in knowing I like a certain author
I had a brain freeze (to go along with the rest of me). I like holding books though.People read on Kindle. I don't think it is very expensive.
I wish I had someone to buy me gifts. Is Santa Claus reading this?Kindle is is good as a request for a birthday or Christmas,
I can't do that anymore. I have to put pillows under my elbows and under the book. And I have "restless legs", so I can't lie still with them straight.enjoy reading in bed at night,
My mom used to get a bunch of books at the half price book store, and then take them back and get a discount on more. Uh, the library is free. She also bought a paperback at the drugstore that I had just gotten at the library one time. She thought going to the library was too much trouble. That also was before I could have reserved stuff online for her.And there are some good second-hand bookstores,
In the summer, my friend, Shauna, and I used to take her red wagon five blocks down the street and get a bunch of books and we would both read them. And roll them back down and get some more the next week. That's back when you got a stamp for so many books and they were plastered all over the library walls. I remember cardboard teddy bears with teddy bear stamps on them! They didn't even have an adult summer reading program this year. I got a bookmark and a tote last year.Saturday was library day and one of my parents would take me to get as many books as they allowed,
Me too. But not as much anymore since they are all cold looking and have computers everywhere. I miss the libraries with the wooden bookcases up to the ceiling and the cozy feel. Even the fireplaces in the new libraries aren't cozy. I've never seen anybody sitting there reading. I'm sure they do it every minute the library is open as soon as I leave though, of course.I love libraries,
Kids don't do homework in libraries anymore. Maybe in the main branch downtown or something. Any "kids" I've seen on the computer were playing games, and a lot of adults.
Anyway, off on a side road (but related) - there's a cartoon on FB about not using the self-checkout at the grocery store where the person is saying "I don't work here". And a big long discussion - people like them, people don't.........One guy started a thing about people don't mind pumping their own gas so why should they mind checking out their own groceries. That's an entirely different thing. And then I was thinking maybe that's where the demise of customer service started - pumping your own gas. I even used to go in to pay afterwards.
There was an episode of That 70's Show, where they went out to eat at a place like a Friday's and the waiter said that they weren't allowed to bring a salad to the table and Kitty could go make her own salad at the salad bar. And they complained that she could make her own salad at home for free. So maybe that's when "customer service" started going downhill. And then technology took over and people don't have to do things right because it's the computer's fault. And look it up yourself. And don't take your face out of your own screen. And this message just locked up, so I will stop complaining and go read my broken book.