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I've been trying to stop using my smartphone at night to sleep better, and I'm cheap - so I've been reading more books. The hot new thing at my library is "holds" you always used to be able to put a hold on a book at another library, but now they put it on a shelf to check out. This includes books *INSIDE* the library, so if you're too lazy to grab stuff off the shelves just put holds in and pick it all up tomorrow! This has had the other side effect there's less people walking around and more spots to Anyways, "The Fire and the Fury" has a 567 person waitlist (!) for my county and I'm too cheap to buy books. What should I read instead? I've got a cool book on the cia (Legacy of Ashes), Neuromancer, Godel Escher Bach... or maybe put something else on hold. Anyways, library chat... commence!
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i used to play runescape on the library computers when i was in middle school. also wikileaks posted the pdf to fire and fury on twitter
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Jan 8, 2018 16:32
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no, i can afford a book
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Jan 8, 2018 16:34
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i pretty much only go to the library to fistfight sapiosexuals and other social deviants
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Jan 8, 2018 16:38
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I only go to the library to shoot up and initiate unwanted conversations with total strangers about the bugs living in my skin.
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Jan 8, 2018 16:56
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Monos Bullet posted:i used to play runescape on the library computers when i was in middle school. also wikileaks posted the pdf to fire and fury on twitter im not sure i want to open a pdf from wikileaks
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Jan 8, 2018 16:56
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Ponies Ist Krieg posted:I only go to the library to shoot up and initiate unwanted conversations with total strangers about the bugs living in my skin. as someone who didn't grow up in a Big City this was the biggest culture shock going to the Big City Public Library, feauring study rooms booked by bums for naps and blue lights in the bathroom so they can't find their veins :/
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Jan 8, 2018 16:58
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It's a warm place where you don't have to purchase anything and they won't kick you out. Not a lot of Resources in some places.
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Jan 8, 2018 16:59
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I go to the library on my computer. Buy a Kindle Paperwhite. The screen is good for reading, unlike your smartphone or tablet, and you can rent books for free from your library.
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Jan 8, 2018 17:05
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i have an old kindle so it's convoluted but you can put books onthere. but often some books aren't on the kindle. plus then amazon knows all the stuff you read  i actually really like reading physical books
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Jan 8, 2018 17:09
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Ponies Ist Krieg posted:It's a warm place where you don't have to purchase anything and they won't kick you out. Not a lot of i don't have a problem. they don't seem to wreck the bathrooms and are quiet, so more power to them.
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Jan 8, 2018 17:09
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Yeah they're usually pretty quiet. Funniest thing I saw in a bathroom was at Panera, an employee with Down syndrome was washing their hair in the toilet. I don't eat at any Panera ever now lol
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Jan 8, 2018 17:19
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if you borrow enough books you can start your own library
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Jan 8, 2018 18:47
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maskenfreiheit posted:i actually really like reading physical books Same but I buy them. Mostly because I love just sitting by my bookshelves full of books and reading. Plus Amazon delivers them and they're always on hand for a reread whenever.
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Jan 8, 2018 18:54
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There’s a library a three minuets walk from my front door and I would love to go there more but don’t because the human beings inside make it extremely uncomfortable for my sight, smell, hearing, and touch senses.
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Jan 8, 2018 18:58
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Honky Dong Country posted:Same but I buy them. Mostly because I love just sitting by my bookshelves full of books and reading. Plus Amazon delivers them and they're always on hand for a reread whenever. im a millenial and move a lot so i dont do this  i do maintain a list of books i really like and when i want one i check it out again. my old library let you renew in perpetuity if no one had a hold in and i did that for a bunch of david sedaris books
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Jan 8, 2018 19:03
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they blacklisted all my fave 2-D porn sites after my last visit. i was asked to leave. so not really.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:05
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maskenfreiheit posted:im a millenial and move a lot so i dont do this I'm only 31, bro. Sadly right now 2/3 of my books are in boxes until I land a better gig and move somewhere with a room I can put my bookshelves up in.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:11
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Honky Dong Country posted:I'm only 31, bro. Sadly right now 2/3 of my books are in boxes until I land a better gig and move somewhere with a room I can put my bookshelves up in. one day i too will have an apartment with plural rooms 
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Jan 8, 2018 19:16
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Only when I want to masturbate.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:19
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Jake Mustache posted:i'm the guy who alt tabs when anyone walks by not knowing the window behind him gives a perfect view of his pornhub viewing.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:22
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maskenfreiheit posted:one day i too will have an apartment with plural rooms I didn't have two whole bedrooms but it did have a small den attached to the living room that was perfect for a comfy chair, small end table, a tall reading lamp, and like four tall bookshelves. I miss it and wish that company didn't go to poo poo and I'd still be there. But then I would never have started doing really loving cool nuke work, so eh. Everything will work out.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:22
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i wash my balls in the bathroom there
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Jan 8, 2018 19:23
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I once had a study. Now I have a single room and my grandfathers barn has a crates-full-of-books section next to the cow feed and tractor diesel sections.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:24
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I used to volunteer at the library every week. It's mostly full of homeless people A crazy woman yelled at my husband for turning pages too loudly once.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:25
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The Saucer Hovers posted:I once had a study. Now I have a single room and my grandfathers barn has a crates-full-of-books section next to the cow feed and tractor diesel sections. Need to get them books somewhere with climate control, dude.
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Jan 8, 2018 19:26
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thanks for this
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Jan 8, 2018 19:32
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There’s seven billion people on earth I would suspect a few other people go there as well op
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Jan 8, 2018 20:14
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I only go when the library is hosting a “comic con” so no not very often
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Jan 8, 2018 20:19
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Book chat. I got a book I’ve been meaning to read. I think it’s called Solaris, short scifi story about human psychology in space. I also just got the Three Body Problem which I saw mentioned in GBS. I read Anatomy of the State and the Communist Manifesto over winter break and gave my sister Monkey on a Stick for xmas (about the Hare Krishna cult). Books rule.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:36
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my local library has a lego night. i used to go to those too.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:38
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myDad posted:Book chat. I can’t tell who’s kidding anymore
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Jan 8, 2018 20:40
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All literature is pornography op. 
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Jan 8, 2018 20:41
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libraries are peddlers of verbal smut and degeneracy. burn it down before satan claims your town.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:42
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My wife does. She's a librarian.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:49
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Our county library system has Hoopla, and honestly it's a pretty good service. Stream audiobooks and other content for free if you've got a library card! Not too shabby.
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Jan 8, 2018 20:50
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I go every day. I work there.Burt Sexual posted:they blacklisted all my fave 2-D porn sites after my last visit. i was asked to leave. so not really.
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Jan 8, 2018 21:11
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Libraries are great and help me learned good
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Jan 8, 2018 21:13
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Liberaries are pretty great. It's a good place to read some decent comics without having to buy them. Or waste your cash on comics that turn out sexist or phobic. The latest additions shelves always have some neat stuff on them. Lately I've been reading 'Wicked Like A Wildfire' by Lana Popovic and just finished He Said She Said by Erin Kelly. Also if you like tense horror slash ghost slash mountain climbing stories, I suggest The White Road by Sarah Lotz. Creeped me the hell out.
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I haven't seen anybody masturbating at the public library Yet
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