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    From Rob Mccart@618:250/1 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Sat Jun 21 00:58:00 2025
    Hi August

    With the mix of weather (cool and lots of rain) and insects
    I've not been doing as much outside as usual by this time of
    year so I'm reading more books than usual for June..

    I prefer paper books when available so I tend to spend a lot of
    time looking for ones I haven't read yet at the Library. It's not
    a huge Library here but probably bigger than most small towns
    would have. Since I go through 3 to 5 books a week I'm always
    trying to keep a list of books there that I haven't read yet and
    I don't want to spend a lot of time browsing, since I'm usually
    short on time when I get into town every 2 weeks - usually several
    appointments on top of shopping, so I order books ahead of time
    and just need a 5 minute stop to drop in my returns and pick up
    my 8 or 10 new books.

    Anyways, I go online and do a branch search for books I haven't
    had before - they keep records online going back about 15 years.

    It's often surprising when I find authors I've never happened
    upon there in the past, which I find by doing subject searches
    with words like Mystery or Detective or Lawyer or Science Fiction
    sort of thing.

    I often get hundreds of books under that search and then I will
    do a second search on the author's name and a single heading
    will often find me from a few to a dozen or so new books..

    I wondered if you've been talking books anywhere on the BBS here.
    I was doing a quick search and there didn't seem to be much to
    do with books.

    Maybe it's just books and computers don't often go together.. B)

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