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awed-frog:
Forbes took the article down, saying something about the writer being outside his expertise, but if that ain’t illustrative of a lot of our American problems, I don’t know what is.
It did remind me, though, to go online and apply for a library card. My family all are signed up for electronic library cards and use apps on their phones and ipads to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks. My dad is now an avid smartphone user because he can have every book in the world on his phone at once, and Farmkid has improved her reading solely so she can use the search function herself to search for more audiobooks to check out– she can read most of the buttons, though she can’t spell well enough to really find what she’s looking for without help. (She’s four, and part of the reason she can’t find what she’s looking for is that she’s sure there should be audiobooks about a particular stuffed toy of hers, who isn’t a commercial character. But she’s really adept at checking out Magic Treehouse mysteries, as it happens.)
Anyway, it took me less than a minute to submit my online application, five minutes to get a reply asking for ID, and another minute or so to take a photo of my driver’s license (which has the required residency info on it) and reply to their email with it. Then they mail me a library card, which I can use to check out electronic things and reserve physical things; to pick up physical things, I just have to go into the library and upgrade myself to a regular library card, and then I can pick up the things I’m having held there.
So– Google “your metro area” plus “library card” and I bet you’ll find something similarly easy, US folks.
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awed-frog:
Forbes took the article down, saying something about the writer being outside his expertise, but if that ain’t illustrative of a lot of our American problems, I don’t know what is.
It did remind me, though, to go online and apply for a library card. My family all are signed up for electronic library cards and use apps on their phones and ipads to read ebooks and listen to audiobooks. My dad is now an avid smartphone user because he can have every book in the world on his phone at once, and Farmkid has improved her reading solely so she can use the search function herself to search for more audiobooks to check out– she can read most of the buttons, though she can’t spell well enough to really find what she’s looking for without help. (She’s four, and part of the reason she can’t find what she’s looking for is that she’s sure there should be audiobooks about a particular stuffed toy of hers, who isn’t a commercial character. But she’s really adept at checking out Magic Treehouse mysteries, as it happens.)
Anyway, it took me less than a minute to submit my online application, five minutes to get a reply asking for ID, and another minute or so to take a photo of my driver’s license (which has the required residency info on it) and reply to their email with it. Then they mail me a library card, which I can use to check out electronic things and reserve physical things; to pick up physical things, I just have to go into the library and upgrade myself to a regular library card, and then I can pick up the things I’m having held there.
So– Google “your metro area” plus “library card” and I bet you’ll find something similarly easy, US folks.
(Your picture was not posted)
