Magazines - the paper kind

[DrB]

I still walk to the library every day at lunch.  Read the local paper and the diminishing amount of magazines they have.  Is relaxing for me. 

They have a book sale twice a year and I am always bringing something home for my library.  They also have a free magazine exchange area in the entrance and I am always looking through that.  The magazines I still get I take there and they are usually gone within a couple of days.

Dave..

[holyjohnson]

i think Librarys will be around awhile longer then we think.

 

more then a few heath orgs have shown that screen time with kids even reading is`nt good for the kids health and that it does`nt have the same memory retention traits that books and magazines like Highlights did.

seeing something is`nt learning and i think a lot of experts are finding that looking at something is`nt tactile or involved enough to retain the information and recall it when needed.

it does`nt help that pedophiles and perverts can surf porn at the local library at will (sometimes even read at story time) and junkies and homeless basically live in the bathrooms.

Edited April 27, 2019 by holyjohnson

[Mrs.Cicero]

6 hours ago, janice6 said:

I can't write on a printed page of a bound book.  I just can't.  I also can't dog ear them.  I make liberal use of post it notes for markers.

But when the presenter passes out copies of his research paper I write all over that damned thing.

I used to be like that, too.  But having to highlight stuff in my textbooks kind of broke me of it.  Then I started writing smartass comments in the margins and things just went downhill from there.  I don't think I can ever go back... all books are an invitation to a conversation now...

[Rizzo]

A few months back, I went on a Stephen Hunter binge at the library. Excellent books; one of the only authors I’ve ever read who is a true gun guy (LOVES 1911’s) and gets it right: no stupid crap about “blowing his head off with a .25 Raven” or “flicked the safety off on his Glock” and so forth I’ve seen from other authors who’ve likely never handled a gun in their life.

Anyway, one of his main characters is Bob Lee Swagger, a retired Marine. But Hunter (or his editor, who knows) didn’t always capitalize “Marine”, and this apparently incensed the guy who read them before me (I’m assuming a jarhead) enough to take a pencil to it and capitalize it himself.

Even though I knew he was right, I erased it out of principle. Don’t write in books, unless they’re yours.

[DrB]

16 hours ago, holyjohnson said:

it does`nt help that pedophiles and perverts can surf porn at the local library at will (sometimes even read at story time) and junkies and homeless basically live in the bathrooms.

I don't see that much here.  A few homeless perhaps for a day or so in the winter but they are gone, not much welcome.  No Junkies so far but this is not big city library.  Many of the folks and staff, we know each other.  The problem here is the few that grab every local newspaper then sit for hours staring at one page.  How long does it take to read a newspaper???

Dave..

Edited April 27, 2019 by DrB