*I have finally figured out how many books to take with you on a trip. You bring hubby’s laptop with the ability to log on to three separate online proprietary databases of audio books and bring two listening/storage devices (besides the computer) plus a separate set of good speakers and then you have the ability to download and instantly listen to over 100,000 books. We downloaded four during the trip. Did we listen to all of them? Did we even listen to parts of all of them? What’s your point, exactly?
*Do NOT take “literature” you haven’t vetted to a hospital to read. Instead of the audio book we’d started the night before, we brought Nabokov’s “Pnin” which is about “a faculty party to end all faculty parties.” I checked it out because I’ve never read Nabakov and it was the smallest of his books on the library shelf and I wanted it for traveling. It was painful and not even ER boredom could get us past it. I mentioned this to a friend who used to work for a university library and her response was, “A faculty party? Sounds more like a bad memory than anything else.”
*Whenever you pass Marshall, Michigan, for any reason whatever, in whatever you’re wearing, whoever you’re with, definitely stop at Schuler’s for dinner.
*At library conferences you get the coolest bookmarks, like this one:
(and as soon as I can figure out how to scan in color with my crappy scanner I’ll be sure to do that)
Hubby and I were traveling for the Michigan Library Association Annual Conference.
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