{"id":876,"date":"2016-01-09T11:32:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T16:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/?p=876"},"modified":"2016-01-09T11:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T16:32:03","slug":"library-resolution-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/09\/library-resolution-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Resolution Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a quick search on library on this website and discovered two January entries (<a href=\"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/03\/support-your-public-library\/\">2011<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/03\/my-new-library\/\">2012<\/a>) that\u00a0resolved to use the public library more. Clearly, it was not a resolution last year since, when I logged in the other day to reserve a book, I discovered that my card had expired in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>But, I&#8217;m back at it again this year: as I&#8217;ve gotten more involved in the reading groups sponsored by LibraryThing,\u00a0I am discovering lots of books that aren&#8217;t on the shelf. Some may have free versions through Amazon but, mostly, I would have to pay for the digital versions. These are generally\u00a0books that I won&#8217;t reread so the library seems like quite an economy. My library has a savings calculator that gives an estimate of the cost of the services you use. I think it&#8217;s a monthly calculation (I was a little confused by the number to be entered so counted each book as a &#8220;service&#8221; that I used). Including two books, a magazine (the librarian showed me the online magazine access they offered) and one interlibrary loan, my cost was $76.00. I may be able to cancel at least one magazine subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I made reading my ROOTS (my own tomes) a priority and managed to read 45 books I already owned, 10 more than the goal I set at the beginning of the year. It doesn&#8217;t look like LibraryThing has a group for setting a library book goal but it doesn&#8217;t mean I can&#8217;t set my own. I&#8217;m going to start with 30 as a goal. \u00a0I checked out three\u00a0today, two Anne Tylers for a book challenge and the next Steve Berry Cotton Malone mystery. I know I&#8217;ll continue borrowing Berry from the library. The books are good but I really don&#8217;t need digital copies.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the ticker:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.TickerFactory.com\/counter\/wkDdtQi\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tickers.TickerFactory.com\/ezt\/t\/wkDdtQi\/counter.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a quick search on library on this website and discovered two January entries (2011 and 2012) that\u00a0resolved to use the public library more. Clearly, it was not a resolution last year since, when I logged in the other day to reserve a book, I discovered that my card \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/09\/library-resolution-revisited\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[121,107],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31UVs-e8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplykaren.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}