If your kids keep asking for every thing they see at every store, and you’re tired of telling them no most of the time, take them to the library and say YES YES YES YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT!!!
my mom tried this on me when I was little, and then said no when I wanted to check out with ~10 books, I was so mad
This is the one area where my mom really did great. Every week she’d rent 3-5 new books from the sci-fi section, I literally read 6 floor to ceiling shelves of books between 4-9th grade. I literally read or discarded every commonly released sci-fi book up to that point… It might’ve ruined my eyes, but it opened my mind
(not like she was a bad mom, she had lots of love but terrible advice…)
I wish I could upvote this more than once.
And then they have a meltdown after deciding all they want is one random-ass potted plant.
I worked at a library in college. It was amazing. Truly one of my favorite jobs I’ve had. Libraries are legitimately one of the best things about modern society. Go support your local library folks!!
If libraries were pitched as a new idea in this political climate, they would be called communist and the idea would never get off the ground.
I imagine it would be prevented under piracy laws.
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You can borrow films at libraries?!
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You absolutely can, yes. Some even have streaming movies.
Yeah I get the kanopy streaming service through my local library. It’s awesome.
I don’t know why more people don’t know about these. For anyone reading, look up the apps Kanopy, Libby and Hoopla.
Streaming movies are not even close to things libraries can offer. My wife is working on opening a new branch in another part of town where there are a lot of poor and homeless people. There will be a room with a sign-up sheet. One person at a time and a lockable door from the inside. It will contain a shower, a washer and a dryer. Anyone can sign up for free.
My wife listens to audiobooks almost every day and she gets all of them through the library. She hasn’t paid for an audiobook in years.
At my local library, you can borrow wii games!
The teen room at my wife’s library has a PS4 and an XBox (not sure which one) for teens to play as long as they want. The TV it’s on is huge. The game library isn’t massive, but it’s respectable.
Films, console games, power tools, board games, recreation rooms, 3D printer, sowing machines, ebooks, audio books…
with a ‘no late-fees’ policy, truly is ‘100% off’ (…your first ‘purchase’ only, probably)
My wife’s library only charges a fee if you never bring it back. No late fees.
When is never?
45 days after the item is considered lost- checkout is 3 weeks, then several overdue notices. Essentially about 3 months. But you can also always renew aside from a few things.
In many places an overdue will automatically become lost after ~2 weeks - ~3 months. Then you’d be charged the cost of the item and sometimes a processing fee to cover the costs of preparing a replacement book. If you have a lost book, still bring it in, I would happily waive fees up until the point the replacement order was placed. Libraries generally just want the books back.
I’d be worried that people would not return books and then point to this when they get late fees.
It’s worked out fine so far.
Good for you!
Fourth Wing
Goddamn it now I remember about that shitty Pern+Hunger Games knockoff.
Everything is a remix. No one wishes that the person who was judgmental of what others like or create was would just speak up more often.
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Like it or not, it was a top national fiction bestseller.
I mean I think the Hunger Games books were shitty too. At least the bits and pieces I caught from my wife listening to the audiobooks.
I heard all the hype, so I read it. I now don’t understand the hype. It has three main elements:
Dragons
Magic School
Romance/light erotica
It doesn’t do any of those things particularly well. There’s nothing interesting or particularly original about the dragons or magic school stories. The plot is full of ham-fisted exposition (the protagonist “reciting facts about the world to deal with stress”? Really?) and the characters are two dimensional and boring as well. The romance is super cringe:
spoiler
the unpopular girl falls for the school’s “bad boy”. In a ‘shocking twist’, he falls for her too. The romance is completely shallow and goes from “I’m attracted to you but we can’t be together” to “we’re soul bonded and will be together forever” in the span of a few in-story days. Literally one short chapter. Again, super cringe and hardly believable, even considering these students are supposed to be late teens to early twenties yet actually act like 15 year olds. Yes, the least believable part in a book about magical, flying reptiles is the shitty romance.
Plus this really short video nails the entire book and not in a flattering way. It may not be the worst book I’ve ever read, but it’s amongst the top ten.
I was also 100% off for the Wolf of Wall Street.
Just saying.
Best scene for sure
There she is
Careful… Publishers can be real cranky when libraries out maneuver them.
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