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Comment on Ten things I hate about me, by Randa Abdel-Fattah by Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:29:55 +0000

I really don’t enjoy this book. It;s basically stating that all australians are racist and it states that we everyone treats lebanese people in real life, like they do in the book. its boring. its annoying. and im dying having have to study it for School.

Comment on The rise of e-reading | Pew Internet Libraries by vetti

vetti — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:58:44 +0000

I was given a Kindle for my birthday this year – great for long trips away when there’s no room for heaps of printed books, but for everyday I still buy and read paper.

Comment on Fine free. by Jackie

Jackie — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 07:30:47 +0000

We don’t have daily late fines at MPOW (we still have damage/loss charges). I’m exceptionally glad we don’t – I’m of the belief that it takes up too much time to administer and you probably end up hitting the patrons that need to access the library the most. I gather from a brief glance through the literature when I was studying that it’s borderline whether it makes a positive impact on circulation figures.

Interestingly, we don’t have that many people complaining about books that they’re waiting for being late back (except for the Hunger Games, which this afternoon was sitting on 360 reserves).

Comment on Users, patrons, or members? by bookboy

bookboy — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:25:32 +0000

I think “clients” fits your corporate environment a lot better than it would fit here.

Although I wonder if maybe some staff would do well to think of the people they serve as their clients rather than users.

Comment on Users, patrons, or members? by Jo

Jo — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:56:02 +0000

We call ours “clients”.

Comment on Jolt, by Bernard Beckett by bookboy

bookboy — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:52:08 +0000

Ashleigh – you should read the book

Sammy – re-reading my review it does sound a bit less excited about the book than I remember being, but I still think it says I liked the book. Bernard Beckett is a fantastic writer, and of course I couldn’t write a better book. Very few reviewers (and I don’t really consider myself much of one) could write a book as good as the ones they review. But that’s not the point. Reviewers are there to help people figure out if they might like to read the book, that’s all. If we were only permitted to review books we could write better than, we wouldn’t review much at all. And if we could write better books, we’d be in the writing business, not reviewing business.

Comment on Jolt, by Bernard Beckett by Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:19:21 +0000

i dont think this is an entirely accurate review. i thought Jolt was a good book and the end was pretty subtle and nice. i loved how the plots interweaved it was very intriging. i think it deserves more credit than you have given it. i highly doubt you could write a better book.

Comment on Jolt, by Bernard Beckett by Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:10:27 +0000

What is the plot in this book?

Comment on Give and Take – a shelf of donated books in the train station. by bookboy

bookboy — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:06:47 +0000

At CL station maybe? I wonder if Metro would go for that?

Comment on Give and Take – a shelf of donated books in the train station. by fi

fi — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 08:30:45 +0000

think a vic public library (maybe yprl) was hoping to do this for the National Year of Reading. Ros & I were tossing round the same idea.