01-11-2011, 06:33 PM
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For a change a nice automated phone call this morning from our library service.The long awaited book is awaiting my collection.
The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies.
It is a hefty tome by any standards so I need to get weaving to read it all within the time allotted.
From the first few pages, it seems a good read.
01-11-2011, 09:15 PM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom
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Just curious, Hammer: how long can you keep the book? Here it used to be a month for a regular and two weeks for a new one; then changed to three weeks for all, regardless.
No chance of renewing the loan as there is a substantial reserve list for this particular book.
The trouble with me is that I often have to read the same section two or three times to make sure I have got it all.
01-11-2011, 09:23 PM
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We have the no-renewal policy on new books also. I don't recall, are you a dim viewer about Kindles? Some people just don't want one. I agree, free from the library is better than paying, but sometimes it's nice to have a book you can return to and re-read.01-11-2011, 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by dandysmom
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We have the no-renewal policy on new books also. I don't recall, are you a dim viewer about Kindles? Some people just don't want one. I agree, free from the library is better than paying, but sometimes it's nice to have a book you can return to and re-read.
Our little shoe box of a house is full of them and to be honest she reads them over and over again.
01-11-2011, 09:39 PM
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I'm sure she and I would get along well.
As I mentioned in other threads, I lived in an 8 room house and there was a bookcase in every room but the living room and bathrooms! It took weeks to box them all up for donation. Maybe treat yourself to a Kindle for Christmas? That's what I did, and love it; I'd have gone mad in hospital without it.
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