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Book retrieval logistics.
Dec. 13th, 2001 05:23 pmSarah recommended to me a book called Planiverse. I suddenly want it very badly.
I can't check the Tempe card catalog for it because I don't have a Tempe library card. And the Phoenix public library only has copies of it, and anything else good, at the central branch. It'd take at least two buses to get to either one, or at least $10 in cab fare each way, even if the Phoenix branch is pretty close to that skating rink I like to go to sometimes.
However, with just one bus, I can go to the downtown Tempe's Borders Books and see if they have it. The downside of this is, if I buy the book and have an unlimited amount of time in which to read it, I don't have the motivating factor of the due date in which to finish it.
Or I could just go home and start reading Puckoon, which arrived in the mail today.
I can't check the Tempe card catalog for it because I don't have a Tempe library card. And the Phoenix public library only has copies of it, and anything else good, at the central branch. It'd take at least two buses to get to either one, or at least $10 in cab fare each way, even if the Phoenix branch is pretty close to that skating rink I like to go to sometimes.
However, with just one bus, I can go to the downtown Tempe's Borders Books and see if they have it. The downside of this is, if I buy the book and have an unlimited amount of time in which to read it, I don't have the motivating factor of the due date in which to finish it.
Or I could just go home and start reading Puckoon, which arrived in the mail today.
