Blog > My Trip to the Library
I like books. I like browsing for fiction books in bookstores. I hate browsing for software related books in bookstores, and yet when ever I go to Indigo I find myself in the tech section. “Maybe this time there’ll be something cool”, I say to myself. Then I get there and realize I’m not a .NET programmer, my shoulders slump, I sigh, and then head over to the sci-fi section to cheer myself up. I could just shop at Indigo online but it just not the same. I like to hold books, flip through the pages and read a little before I commit to taking them home.
Well those days are now over thanks to the Toronto Public Library. I’ve been in the city for 5 years now, but never got around to getting a library card until I moved next to a library. Having a library card is great. Just the other day I walked in to the Toronto Reference Library and found Nagios: System and Network Monitoring and The Book of Postfix. Then on the way out I noticed a sign, “Find more books at our online repositories”. Books, that are online, that I can read; this was like the best day of my week. Sure I can't hold them but in this case quantity will make up for quality.
The moral of this story is, get a library card, libraries rule.
Well those days are now over thanks to the Toronto Public Library. I’ve been in the city for 5 years now, but never got around to getting a library card until I moved next to a library. Having a library card is great. Just the other day I walked in to the Toronto Reference Library and found Nagios: System and Network Monitoring and The Book of Postfix. Then on the way out I noticed a sign, “Find more books at our online repositories”. Books, that are online, that I can read; this was like the best day of my week. Sure I can't hold them but in this case quantity will make up for quality.
The moral of this story is, get a library card, libraries rule.
Posted by Andrew Reynolds on Monday, April 16, 2007 at 07:30 PM in Tech Geekery with tags Books, Library • Permalink • 1 comment
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Jorge
says:
Andrew, you must visit the public library at College and Huron! It's all about sci-fi / fantasy books --you'll love it.
Posted by Jorge on Friday April 20, 2007 at 9:25 AM
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