No I get it. I would have gotten my back up too, under the circumstances. Sorry how I came off initially, and glad we’re talking it out.

It’s just hard man. In this field, you defend your fucking existence every day to every “Why are libraries here” or “Isn’t everything online” or “Libraries are for poor people” you…

My man, I will only say this one more time. You came across like a total ass, I responded in kind. Don’t put that evil on me Ricky Bobby.

We look like we’ve come to some civility here, so lets go from there right?

It may not, but it certainly comes across that way online man. Libraries have changed, reading and access to information and platforms has changed irrevocably. It comes across more as if you haven’t totally kept up with it, and are grumbling about the older days when these things might have meant more.

Reading simply…

That’s because you’re hinging the act of getting information from a medium on the the word “reading” which implies a physical and visual medium. Reading is one way to get the information of a book, but books are not the only mediums with that information, and reading’s not the only way to get it. Consider this, your…

See? Call me rude with shit like this? Dude, if you’d been in or worked in a library in several decades you might realize that A) we do this all the time, B) it’s the least of the services we offer, and C) there’s at least several different types of libraries and they don’t all do the same thing (academic research…

I’m trying really hard not to be. Really hard. It doesn’t help when poorly thought out and worded opinions that kind of crap on your field are typed out. I’ll try to check it, but you’re going to have to check how you’re coming across as well.

Seriously guy, quit with this shit. Let people like shit and have access in the way they want it without having to wonder if they’re going to be called out as fake fans. We have enough of hard time getting people into reading in the first place, without having to deal with shit like this on top of it.

You can listen…

It’s a shitty high-horse opinion that separates “real readers” and “fake readers” so you can feel good about that book you read this year. 

Correct. I am telling you that as a professional librarian of over a decade, with the degree and knowledge to back it up. You’re confusing container and content, and pretending that preferring physical books is the only way to go about it. Stop that shit.

Yes. If you sat through children’s hour, or only listened to audiobooks, I would consider you a fan of reading, books, and literature on a whole. Books are the physical containers (carriers in metadata speak), the information is what it contains (content in the same). Trust me, it’s not about the format but the…

Yes, I’ve watched a ton of sports. Never liked a single bit of it. Watched people play video games in arcades and on couches, also never much like that.

It’s fine to not like this as well, and not understand why people do like it. As long as your not casting stones, do your own thing.

True, he’s welcome to it. I just prefer being pedantic and right, to being pedantic and possibly right based on information that was unsaid and unable to be inferred.

And you are correct, that some people pay taxes that go to the library to help fund it, doesn’t actually mean they pay for services rendered later.…

We used the BPL during MLS classes to talk about stakeholders, and our group project involved mapping them out prospectively for a project involving underserved populations. It was my first experience with Boston libraries, and I’m madly impressed. Yall have your own music librarian, who is an actual composer. I’m…

We have two libraries here in Jonesboro, Arkansas, both of which do their damnedest to serve their communities well. Our local public library holds tons of events, exercise classes, planetarium, board game nights, music on the lawn, craft shows, and million other things to both help the community and keep them…

Psychodog didn’t state what type of library he was speaking of. There’s several different types of libraries, only one or two of which get your local taxes. So I’m giving him benefit of the doubt and going with his statement until proven otherwise.

That is very true. It’s not the glamorous stuff you see in movies, or the Brent Weeks works (awful, just awful). I think she did well to show what it would cost him (Chade), and followed through with it.

Totally fair IMO. Authors have been doing that for decades and decades. Any trilogy written continuously is effectively a single really long novel broken into three parts.

It is a hard start, it’s not just you. While I like the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, it pales in comparison to her other works, Dreamblood Duology and Fifth Season. If I had a to pick, I’d probably offer Dreamblood Duology as a starting point for new readers over Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. But really I love everything…

I’ve read that too, loved it when I was younger. It doesn’t hold up very well as I’ve aged though. I couldn’t finish a reread I attempted a few months back.

Or my Jennifer Fallon and Trudi Caravan? V. E. Schwab and Susan Cooper? Leguin?