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altivoNot quite time for Indian summer, especially as we've had no frost yet, but this morning started out foggy and faded into a sweltering afternoon. When we left the library about an hour before sunset, it was still quite steamy outdoors. I dunno what's coming for the weekend, except that there wasn't supposed to be any rain last time I checked.
Mostly cataloging stuff today, which is unusual as recent events go, but certainly always needed. I have more gift books to triage as well. It's amazing what some people will "donate" as if they were doing us a favor. (And how offended they get when we decline to accept Readers Digest condensed books, their father's hoard of National Geographic, or twenty year old encyclopedias.) Boxes full of books are sometimes dumped at our doors while we are closed, usually by people who know damn well we'd say no to them if they came while we were open. Books that have sat in a garage or cellar for decades and are musty and crumbly. Sometimes even books that are wet. The heavy rains last month flooded a lot of basements. Would you believe people kept bringing us wet or moldy books and trying to give them to us? On the other hand, there are always a few nice or useful things that show up in a month's worth of donations. Books that we really can use, or that we can put into our book sale and get a couple of bucks for.
The BOINC project continues to grind along, piling up points for work done, but a lot of it is going into a "pending" state because the other copy of the same file is sitting somewhere still unprocessed or unreported.
Several new (to me) books came in the mail today, and I think I'm going to shirk for the rest of the evening and enjoy some reading. Parcels came from both Sofawolf and Anthro.
Mostly cataloging stuff today, which is unusual as recent events go, but certainly always needed. I have more gift books to triage as well. It's amazing what some people will "donate" as if they were doing us a favor. (And how offended they get when we decline to accept Readers Digest condensed books, their father's hoard of National Geographic, or twenty year old encyclopedias.) Boxes full of books are sometimes dumped at our doors while we are closed, usually by people who know damn well we'd say no to them if they came while we were open. Books that have sat in a garage or cellar for decades and are musty and crumbly. Sometimes even books that are wet. The heavy rains last month flooded a lot of basements. Would you believe people kept bringing us wet or moldy books and trying to give them to us? On the other hand, there are always a few nice or useful things that show up in a month's worth of donations. Books that we really can use, or that we can put into our book sale and get a couple of bucks for.
The BOINC project continues to grind along, piling up points for work done, but a lot of it is going into a "pending" state because the other copy of the same file is sitting somewhere still unprocessed or unreported.
Several new (to me) books came in the mail today, and I think I'm going to shirk for the rest of the evening and enjoy some reading. Parcels came from both Sofawolf and Anthro.
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Date: 2007-10-06 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-06 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-13 09:59 pm (UTC)I usually only donate books that I've bought brand new to the library. if they've been through a secondhand bookshop I don't.
We have a fantastic booksale every year you'd love :) Lifeline and other charties plus libraries etc all put in books for a big sale.
I've bought so many good books at these sales.
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Date: 2007-10-14 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-10-15 10:19 am (UTC)Bring your van cause you won't fit them all in a standard car.
XD