New York Crapping

Recently it was explained to me that the "probable" reason that the NYPL did not have a "drop box" for returning books was that "people would just put crap inside it".

Sad, isn't it?

NYPL

At some point, I just dumped my entire list of "books I wanna read but don't want to buy" into the New York Public Library "bring-it-to-me" scheme.

The local branch is just a few blocks away.

Better yet, you can just keep dumping things into the queue, and they keep bringing them. Alas, the queue can only be 15 long, and you can only have 30 out at a time.

So what? I'm having the time of my life. I think I finished 2.5 books today.

Let's not forget the important part. They bring it to you!!!

Thomas Jefferson's Library

At the Library of Congress. Totally impressive. Completely a Renaissance man. The sheer range of books on every topic from philosophy to political thought to mathematics is stupendous.

They are organized by topic.

It is amusing to note that books by Bernoulli and Newton, and treatises on Euclid rub shoulders with practical books on how to construct a set of weights and measures, and surveying. No artificial distinction between theory and practice.