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[KevinH]

Our local news did a feature on the most expensive home on the market in the USA--the owner is asking $190 million.  The home is in Greenwich, CT.  Guess what?  It doesn't have central air conditioning!

[elmore3003]

Our local news did a feature on the most expensive home on the market in the USA--the owner is asking $190 million.  The home is in Greenwich, CT.  Guess what?  It doesn't have central air conditioning!

Then I'm not buying it!

[Jane]

Our local news did a feature on the most expensive home on the market in the USA--the owner is asking $190 million.  The home is in Greenwich, CT.  Guess what?  It doesn't have central air conditioning!

Is it a very old home?

[George]

The library here now has more than 300 reservations for "The Cuckoo's Calling" and 46 additional copies on order.

Our library has four copies (so far) with 25 on order and another 20 copies to be ordered (I just got the order about a half hour ago) and only 206 holds...so far.  However, the additional 20 copies yet to be ordered will be leased books.  We started leasing books at the beginning of this year, so we won't have to keep all of these copies when there is no more interest.

How does leasing work & where do you send the extra copies?  Our library in Michigan had hot books for $.50 with only a 1 or 2 week check out.  I'm sure the charge eventually covered the cost of the book.  I was very happy to pay little for a newish clean book.

We get books from our major vendor, Baker & Taylor.  Our adult fiction selector (that's the only kind of books that we're leasing:  adult fiction) gets to select titles based on any criteria...for the most part, it's the number of requests or the potential to be a real high demand title.  We get a certain quantity per year and have to send back 70% of them.  We get to keep whatever titles we want just as long as we send 70% back.  We get to keep up to 30%, so we can keep the ones we really need to.
 
If any are damaged by patrons, those can be part of the 30% that we "keep."  If any are defective from the publisher, we can get replacements for those without counting as additional copies.  Since we just started this year, we don't have to start sending any back until the beginning of next year.  We send them back to B&T, but I have no idea what they do with them and it's not my concern.

[Ginny]

I had an OK visit with my Mom, then came home for lunch and a trip to the Y with Richard for a much needed workout.  We got home from that in time for me to put leftover lasagna in the oven and meet with our AAUW outgoing and incoming scholarship chairs.  Richard and I just finished dinner and I'm done for the day.

[bk]

ChasSmith, it was Three Outlaw Samurai directed by Hideo Gosha, a Criterion Blu and Ray.

[bk]

Back from a three-mile jog.

[ryacko]

DR Ryacko I'm glad you are reconnected.

Thank you, DR Jane. 

[Jane]

The library here now has more than 300 reservations for "The Cuckoo's Calling" and 46 additional copies on order.

Our library has four copies (so far) with 25 on order and another 20 copies to be ordered (I just got the order about a half hour ago) and only 206 holds...so far.  However, the additional 20 copies yet to be ordered will be leased books.  We started leasing books at the beginning of this year, so we won't have to keep all of these copies when there is no more interest.

How does leasing work & where do you send the extra copies?  Our library in Michigan had hot books for $.50 with only a 1 or 2 week check out.  I'm sure the charge eventually covered the cost of the book.  I was very happy to pay little for a newish clean book.

We get books from our major vendor, Baker & Taylor.  Our adult fiction selector (that's the only kind of books that we're leasing:  adult fiction) gets to select titles based on any criteria...for the most part, it's the number of requests or the potential to be a real high demand title.  We get a certain quantity per year and have to send back 70% of them.  We get to keep whatever titles we want just as long as we send 70% back.  We get to keep up to 30%, so we can keep the ones we really need to.
 
If any are damaged by patrons, those can be part of the 30% that we "keep."  If any are defective from the publisher, we can get replacements for those without counting as additional copies.  Since we just started this year, we don't have to start sending any back until the beginning of next year.  We send them back to B&T, but I have no idea what they do with them and it's not my concern.

Not a bad deal for the library

[bk]

I picked up one package earlier and now there is another - the full score to Yearbook so I guess I'll go collect that now.

[bk]

BTW, the six thousand dollar signed copy of The Cuckoo's Calling has not sold.  Guess there are limits.  There was one for 3100 bucks buy it now, but someone bid on it and the buy it now went away.  Real intelligent bidder there, who obviously knows nothing about how eBay works.

[Ginny]

Forty years ago today, I took an early morning flight from Detroit to Dayton for a day of interviewing at Miami University for my first professional library job.  If you had told me that day that I'd still be in Middletown forty years later, I wouldn't have believed you.

[TCB]

I still haven't received my copy of the A PLACE IN THE SUN CD.  I have filed a complaint with AOL and PayPal.

[Jane]

Forty years ago today, I took an early morning flight from Detroit to Dayton for a day of interviewing at Miami University for my first professional library job.  If you had told me that day that I'd still be in Middletown forty years later, I wouldn't have believed you.

It seems to have worked out well for you.

[bk]

I gotta tell you.

[bk]

But I won't.

[bk]

Bad typo in Three Friends, a "can" that should be "can't" - do can and it subverts the meaning of the lyric - it's correct in the script, though.

[Ginny]

Forty years ago today, I took an early morning flight from Detroit to Dayton for a day of interviewing at Miami University for my first professional library job.  If you had told me that day that I'd still be in Middletown forty years later, I wouldn't have believed you.

It seems to have worked out well for you.

It certainly has, DR Jane!

[George]

Well, I must be off.  Tonight is the start of Olympia's annual Capital Lakefair!  I'm going to meet my friend Margo down there and we're going to get a Demo burger.  The proceeds of the burger sales go to elect Democrats.  There's also a Republican equivalent, but they don't sell burgers.  In the past, I think they've sold pulled pork sandwiches or something like that.  I don't remember. But the Demo burgers are very good.

Be back later!

[John G.]

Forty years ago today, I took an early morning flight from Detroit to Dayton for a day of interviewing at Miami University for my first professional library job.  If you had told me that day that I'd still be in Middletown forty years later, I wouldn't have believed you.

Happy anniversary!

[John G.]

Barbara, take off your pantyhose!

[Ginny]

Thanks, DR John G!

[Cillaliz]

Hmmmm....looking at the news, why is having a photo of the Boston bombing suspect on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine creating such controversy? Hasn't this persons photo been on the cover of other magazines or newspapers already? It isn't like Rolling Stones is doing a story on what a nice guy he is or something...or are they?

Or is all the hand wringing just a pre-arranged publicity stunt to sell more copies?

The problem for me is that this person is accused - and, unlike his mother, I believe he's guilty as sin - of a series of crimes including killing an office and setting off bombs, which killed and maimed several, at the Boston Marathon. The cover of ROLLING STONE is giving him some celebrity status, and I don't think it's appropriate; it's a bit of a slap in the face to his victims.  Let me ask you this, Mikey: do you think he'd be on the cover of ROLLING STONE if the the editor were a parent or relative of one of this man's victims?

Plus, it's the pretty boy photo. He's presented like Jim Morrison or some rock star. I don't know if this story goes into it or not, but I've read he has developed legions of women followers who want to marry him, even though he has been accused of committing these atrocities -- and this is largely because of photographs such as this one.

One of the former dance instructors at the Arthur Murray here was one of the people to lose a leg in the bombing. 

Thankfully, only people over 40 or 50 seem to read Rolling Stone any more.

I think if it had been a photo of him in handcuffs or looking like an accused bomber instead of a potential teen idol, the reaction may have been different.  After all, Charles Manson was on the cover of Rolling Stone. People don't want villains to be that attractive

[Cillaliz]

The library here now has more than 300 reservations for "The Cuckoo's Calling" and 46 additional copies on order.

Our library is only up to 86 with one book, not too bad.

I got it for 9.99 last night on BN.com

[Jane]

Forty years ago today, I took an early morning flight from Detroit to Dayton for a day of interviewing at Miami University for my first professional library job.  If you had told me that day that I'd still be in Middletown forty years later, I wouldn't have believed you.

It seems to have worked out well for you.

It certainly has, DR Jane!

[John G.]

Hmmmm....looking at the news, why is having a photo of the Boston bombing suspect on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine creating such controversy? Hasn't this persons photo been on the cover of other magazines or newspapers already? It isn't like Rolling Stones is doing a story on what a nice guy he is or something...or are they?

Or is all the hand wringing just a pre-arranged publicity stunt to sell more copies?

The problem for me is that this person is accused - and, unlike his mother, I believe he's guilty as sin - of a series of crimes including killing an office and setting off bombs, which killed and maimed several, at the Boston Marathon. The cover of ROLLING STONE is giving him some celebrity status, and I don't think it's appropriate; it's a bit of a slap in the face to his victims.  Let me ask you this, Mikey: do you think he'd be on the cover of ROLLING STONE if the the editor were a parent or relative of one of this man's victims?

Plus, it's the pretty boy photo. He's presented like Jim Morrison or some rock star. I don't know if this story goes into it or not, but I've read he has developed legions of women followers who want to marry him, even though he has been accused of committing these atrocities -- and this is largely because of photographs such as this one.

One of the former dance instructors at the Arthur Murray here was one of the people to lose a leg in the bombing. 

Thankfully, only people over 40 or 50 seem to read Rolling Stone any more.

I think if it had been a photo of him in handcuffs or looking like an accused bomber instead of a potential teen idol, the reaction may have been different.  After all, Charles Manson was on the cover of Rolling Stone. People don't want villains to be that attractive

That's why it's disturbs me that so many women are falling in love with him. That was long before this pretty boy portrait.

[Cillaliz]

The library here now has more than 300 reservations for "The Cuckoo's Calling" and 46 additional copies on order.

Our library is only up to 86 with one book, not too bad.

I got it for 9.99 last night on BN.com

of course that was a nook book

[John G.]

Started watching "Warm Bodies," the zombie rom com. It's a five-minute sketch stretched way too long.

[Jane]

Hmmmm....looking at the news, why is having a photo of the Boston bombing suspect on the cover of Rolling Stones magazine creating such controversy? Hasn't this persons photo been on the cover of other magazines or newspapers already? It isn't like Rolling Stones is doing a story on what a nice guy he is or something...or are they?

Or is all the hand wringing just a pre-arranged publicity stunt to sell more copies?

The problem for me is that this person is accused - and, unlike his mother, I believe he's guilty as sin - of a series of crimes including killing an office and setting off bombs, which killed and maimed several, at the Boston Marathon. The cover of ROLLING STONE is giving him some celebrity status, and I don't think it's appropriate; it's a bit of a slap in the face to his victims.  Let me ask you this, Mikey: do you think he'd be on the cover of ROLLING STONE if the the editor were a parent or relative of one of this man's victims?

Plus, it's the pretty boy photo. He's presented like Jim Morrison or some rock star. I don't know if this story goes into it or not, but I've read he has developed legions of women followers who want to marry him, even though he has been accused of committing these atrocities -- and this is largely because of photographs such as this one.

One of the former dance instructors at the Arthur Murray here was one of the people to lose a leg in the bombing. 

Thankfully, only people over 40 or 50 seem to read Rolling Stone any more.

I think if it had been a photo of him in handcuffs or looking like an accused bomber instead of a potential teen idol, the reaction may have been different.  After all, Charles Manson was on the cover of Rolling Stone. People don't want villains to be that attractive

True. 

The headline on the article fit the photo, IMHO.