10 mo. ago • 98%

The library where my wife works is having a Black Friday sale.

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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!!!

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- 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
  
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  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...)
  
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- I wish I could upvote this more than once.
  
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- And then they have a meltdown after deciding all they want is one random-ass potted plant.
  
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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!!

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- 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.
  
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  I imagine it would be prevented under piracy laws.
  
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- I wish I could. Sadly my local library has been taken over by homeless people doing drugs.
  
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You can borrow films at libraries?!

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- Libraries are amazing! They have books, ebook, movies, magazines, study rooms, computers with internet!. Some have makers spaces. There could be a 3d-printer to use, sewing machines, other tools and items. And then there's the classes and events the library holds. A reading club, craft activities, kids groups, read-alouds, theme nights. And more! Libraries can connect you to services and legal help. They are there to give you information.
  
  Libraries are just a physical format of Google. They lead you to the information and things you need if you just ask :)
  
  I remembered more. Some library cards can be used as logins for different online tools that would otherwise cost money.
  
  Ask your librarian what your library has :D
  
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- You absolutely can, yes. Some even have streaming movies.
  
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  Yeah I get the kanopy streaming service through my local library. It's awesome.
  
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- At my local library, you can borrow wii games!
  
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  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.
  
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- Films, console games, power tools, board games, recreation rooms, 3D printer, sowing machines, ebooks, audio books...
  
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with a 'no late-fees' policy, truly is '100% off' (...your first 'purchase' only, probably)

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- My wife's library only charges a fee if you never bring it back. No late fees.
  
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  When is never?
  
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I'd be worried that people would not return books and then point to this when they get late fees.

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- It's worked out fine so far.
  
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  Good for you!
  
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I was also 100% off for the Wolf of Wall Street.

Just saying.

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- There she is
  
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- Best scene for sure
  
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Fourth Wing

Goddamn it now I remember about that shitty Pern+Hunger Games knockoff.

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- 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.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA
  
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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.
  
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- 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.
  
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Careful... Publishers can be real cranky when libraries out maneuver them.

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library

sale

Wut?

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