Hi August

With the mix of weather (cool and lots of rain) and insects
I've not been doing as much outside as usual by this time of
year so I'm reading more books than usual for June..

I prefer paper books when available so I tend to spend a lot of
time looking for ones I haven't read yet at the Library. It's not
a huge Library here but probably bigger than most small towns
would have. Since I go through 3 to 5 books a week I'm always
trying to keep a list of books there that I haven't read yet and
I don't want to spend a lot of time browsing, since I'm usually
short on time when I get into town every 2 weeks - usually several
appointments on top of shopping, so I order books ahead of time
and just need a 5 minute stop to drop in my returns and pick up
my 8 or 10 new books.

Anyways, I go online and do a branch search for books I haven't
had before - they keep records online going back about 15 years.

It's often surprising when I find authors I've never happened
upon there in the past, which I find by doing subject searches
with words like Mystery or Detective or Lawyer or Science Fiction
sort of thing.

I often get hundreds of books under that search and then I will
do a second search on the author's name and a single heading
will often find me from a few to a dozen or so new books..

I wondered if you've been talking books anywhere on the BBS here.
I was doing a quick search and there didn't seem to be much to
do with books.

Maybe it's just books and computers don't often go together.. B)

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