Chicago MMXII

this is great fun

:D

Aha, there it is! FB's interface is so counterintuitive. Will send mail!

Finally figured out how to check e-books out of the library and all of my hold books say something like:

You are patron 13 out of 18 on the waiting list.
Library copies owned: 2

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― gonna give her the old fuquay-varina (Jenny), Monday, January 30, 2012 7:38 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

again, this is partially because the default check-out period is 3 weeks and because there's no real incentive to return an ebook before that 3 weeks is up (because there are no late fees) and it's not really clear you can even do so. so almost everyone who checks out an ebook will have it for 3 weeks, so the lists pile up.

I really don't understand this manufactured scarcity with lending e-books. If something is apparently that popular, surely its fairly easy to license another copy to satisfy demand? Maybe I just don't understand enough about how this works from the library's end.

i don't know for sure but my guess is that the budget for e-books at most libraries is still relatively small compared to hard copy books because it's still a new/unproven market. so they might not have enough $$$ to buy like 10 "copies" of a given e-book. there is also just general weirdness in the publishing/licensing/borrowing around e-books at this point so it could be something more arcane. libraries are very interested in tracking interest in various books and trying to meet that interest so i doubt the issue is really a library just not buying enough copies because of ignorance.

Yeah, a lot of it is just that the explosion in ebooks has happened really quickly and libraries haven't caught up with events yet. Like, our ebook usage has skyrocketed even very recently, since so many people got ereaders for Christmas. And a lot of people (myself included) are loathe to cut print book budget to pay for ebooks, but I guess it will come to that soon.

Also, buying ebooks is kind of complicated -- you have to go through a separate vendor and most libraries in the area (not including CPL obv) are part of a larger consortium for ebooks too.

Also, basically all option for buying ebooks for libraries suck, so it's hard to get too excited about any of it. Some new vendors are getting into it, so maybe it will get better.

I'm talking only about public libraries FYI, I don't know about academic/special though I'm sure n/a does

my boss asked me to look into it for our library, even though it's pretty out-of-character for us and not really in line with our policies, and dealing with overdrive for a collection of our size would be prohibitively expensive, and they're kind of the only kid on the block at this point.

Thanks guys, that is helpful to hear. I just always assumed it would be quciker and "easier" to get a new digital copy than a physical copy, but it makes sense to hear how the different budgets are tied into it.

Baker and Taylor have a new ebook product out that sounds interesting, though I think it would be just as expensive as overdrive. 3M has one coming soon too.

xp

YENNY look someone cloned David Gilmour and made him go by "Astronautalis"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Astronautalis.jpg

He needs more hair.

doesn't he? it looks like someone chopped off his mane and all he got to show for it was that necklace and a beige cardigan

can't recall if this made it onto one of the old threads or not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNMinoa9ILg&feature=g-upl&context=G2c20309AUAAAAAAACAA

Weather is looking nice. Wouldn't it be great if it didn't snow anymore this winter?

High of 59!!!

That makes me fundamentally uneasy.

Also making me uneasy: woman on train this morning with cartload of bottles filled with what appeared to be urine.

The other day I saw a guy walking across the intersection of Clark and Foster pushing three cases of PBR that were resting comfortably in his wheelchair.

Speaking of containers of urine, I mean.

Not really. PBR is ok.

Slightly tastier than urine.

I am so exhausted, I need to learn how to fall back asleep more easily.

I Pee, Eh?

jvc do you like the mark mcguire comp that came out last year -- a young person's guide? do you like ashra/gottching? for whatever reason, that particular guitar sound really helped me distract my brain to the point where i was able to fall asleep when i was having all of that trouble last year.

i was going to put this on the insomnia thread but it seemed like i was too BLALBLALBLA

Haha, yeah that was a very rambling post of mine, but I'm exhausted. Funny you should ask about that McGuire comp, I JUST picked it up finally a couple weeks ago and love it - thats actually a really good call and I think I'll try to have that loaded up on the iPod by my bed. Ashra and Gottsching in general have been on my list of "to explore" for awhile now, but haven't just yet.

this is a good time for that! i have other recommendations but i'll let you start there.

This winter is not OK with me. I want some snow and cold. What I really want is Snowpocalypse 2012.

Did you guys know that postage rates went up last week? 1 penny increase for regular letters.

I actually didn't know that!

For some reason my office's postage meter didn't automatically update like it was supposed to.

1) Try Hot Rick 11 pts
2) Bee Hell Unit 12 pts
3) Match- Aw Eerie Thong Afoul 13 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

1 = 30 Rock
2 = The Blue Line?
3 = ?

i think i'd be down

bee hell unit = the blue nile?

Ohhh. Possibly!

blue line seems more likely

come on, guys, we can do this!

I can't go, I was at the Globe last night.

While there, I did learn something interesting: they bought the shitty bar next door and are going to expand westward starting pretty soon. There were guys with blueprints in there taking measurements.

huh that bar hasn't been there long

The bar w/ the neon martini in the window? That place looked like a hole.

I'm going to an event tonight so I can't make it.

At the very least I want to figure out that third anagram.

what kind of event are you going to?

If anyone has time to kill in the Loop on Wed I have a 5 1/2-hour break in between classes and will be spending it at the AIC museum. It's free!

I'm going to a event for K8e's school.

It's an appetizer event.

i guess no pub quiz :(

It's a fund raiser.

It's a prison party.

Nick, I can ask around and see if anyone else is interested.

OK, I guess it's off.

goat

it's yr birthday :D

I left that playing while I folded socks and underwear and it seems to have given Brenda PTSD. She has been hunkering by the coffee table w/ her ears folded back for a while now.