A recently new introduction in our family has been the public library. Josie is reading now at almost a 3rd grade level now. (Very proud Dad here, she’s in the first grade :-)) and so she’s always looking for new books. Each Sunday we try and make it out to our local library to get some new reading material. Josie thinks this is quite a trick, a conversation she and I had a couple of weeks back…
You mean we can get these books without paying for them?
We can keep them as long as we want as long as we keep going back to renew them?
What a trick! Are you sure this is ok Dad, we won’t get in trouble will we?
So its quite entertaining to see the following snippet on Jon’s Library Lookup page.
I was shocked to discover a nest of pirates yesterday, operating brazenly right here in my hometown. They were gathered in a large nondescript building, reading and talking quietly and in some cases listening to music. Some kind of social club, perhaps? Yes, but with a profoundly subversive theme: “sharing” content. This establishment houses large collections of books, magazines, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, DVDs. And it “shares” these with its patrons. I watched in amazement as people left the building carrying armloads of these content assets, which they “borrow” without paying a nickel to the copyright holders. It’s frightening, really. Who knew?
In the days of
online shopping, Borders Books and Barnes and Noble how do you train yourself to use the library more? Jon’s most excellent Grease Monkey script should help, as it allows you to see if your local library has a copy of the book you are currently browsing at Amazon.com
Wait — aren’t Greasemonkey scripts only available for Firefox?
Nope. Jon updated his script to work with Reify’s most excellent Turnabout scripting application for Internet Explorer last week.
It works great.
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