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Do you have a library card?

  • 18-12-2014 11:14am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭


    I'm a pretty regular reader but I've never been a member of a library. Got talking at work earlier and it seems most people are the same. In fact the only time I think I was in (a non-college) one was back cramming for Junior Cert!

    More generally, are ye lot regular readers? I'm curious as to how people can't be :p

    To the members, am I missing out on stuff? Good reads? Events? Picking up well read hot chicks?

    Do you have a library card? 111 votes

    Yes
    0% 0 votes
    No
    69% 77 votes
    I can't read
    30% 34 votes


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I used to have a library card which I used regularly when I was young.

    I haven't been a member of one since my early twenties though.

    I still read (not as much as I'd like) but I buy me my bukes these days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,426 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Non, but I got some Christmas cards this morning.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I have one, I would go to the library at least once a week, sometimes more.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,735 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    One of the few services I'm overall happy with in Ireland though don't get me started on opening hours around bank holidays...
    Taking days off seems to be an art form.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The missus wanted a Kindle for Christmas.
    I was like.... "what the fuck is a kindle, describe it to me".

    "Well, it's small", she said, "rectangular, portable, and it will give me access to all the latest books, you dumbass?"

    Guess who this dumbass is getting a library card for Christmas?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Mr_Muffin


    I had one. I borrowed books a few years back and returned them like you're supposed to. I went to borrow a few more and they told me i never returned the previous ones.


    I lost it and attacked the librarian and her assistant.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,417 ✭✭✭WinnyThePoo


    I have one. I took out naked lunch by Will S Burroughs. Read the first 40 pages or so. Disgraceful stuff. Never gave it back to the library(kinda forgot about it). So can't use the library anymore.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,066 ✭✭✭✭omb0wyn5ehpij9


    Last time I was in a library was when I was in college about 8 years ago :o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I borrow 5 books each fortnight. It is a great service. Library for the one read thrillers or detective novels and then I buy the science/history/reference books I want to hold in my own home library.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    I haven't at the moment.

    I used to always have one, all my life, until moving to Co Cork some 7 years ago. There is nothing I could call a decent library anywhere near me now, so these days I buy my books of amazon, or swap them with friends.

    It still feels weird, though, as libraries had previously always been a massive part of my life.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Yup, I've been borrowing books from council libraries since I was 10. I use the college library now for convenience though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭Dunny


    Yep, got one since I got back doing the LC.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,403 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Tubaiste wrote: »
    I don't mind libraries apart from the librarians, how come they're all so moody?

    All the ones I see are lovely. Really helpful and they don't charge me reserve fees :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭BabysCoffee


    Yup I have a card and regularly use it

    I love borrowing boxsets from my library - free to borrow and I can keep them for 3 weeks

    They also do free eBooks and free eZines.

    They also just added a new service where you can download newspapers from all over the world. I download the Sunday newspapers for free to my tablet!!! Incredible!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    I had one. I borrowed books a few years back and returned them like you're supposed to. I went to borrow a few more and they told me i never returned the previous ones.


    I lost it and attacked the librarian and her assistant.

    Ah you cant be doing that


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    There's nothing you can get from a book you can't get from a television faster.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    There's nothing you can get from a book you can't get from a television faster.

    http://www.educ.ualberta.ca/staff/olenka.Bilash/best%20of%20bilash/Images/dalescone2.gif

    And you'd be right

    But Television does hinder imagination and creativity


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,910 ✭✭✭✭whatawaster


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    There's nothing you can get from a book you can't get from a television faster.

    papercuts?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,689 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    Harry Wormwood: A book? What do you want a book for?
    Matilda: To read.
    Harry Wormwood: To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

    Roald Dahl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    Harry Wormwood: A book? What do you want a book for?
    Matilda: To read.
    Harry Wormwood: To read? Why would you want to read when you got the television set sitting right in front of you? There's nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster.

    Roald Dahl.

    Brilliant. Love the irony.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    Mine was revoked.

    Walked in to local library,
    Me, "howiya, can I have a fillet burger and a bag of chips please. :)
    Woman behind desk, " this is a library sir:rolleyes:"
    Me "oh sorry luv ssssshhhh can I have a fillet burger and a bag of chips please


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,438 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Karl Stein wrote: »
    There's nothing you can get from a book you can't get from a television faster.

    A paper cut?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    papercuts?
    . 13:31
    endacl wrote: »
    A paper cut?
    . 13.41

    Perhaps you need to do more reading alright! :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    Mine was revoked.

    Walked in to local library,
    Me, "howiya, can I have a fillet burger and a bag of chips please. :)
    Woman behind desk, " this is a library sir:rolleyes:"
    Me "oh sorry luv ssssshhhh can I have a fillet burger and a bag of chips please

    Father Dougal: Ahh, lets see, I'll have a bag of chips and a bottle of Fanta.
    Policeman: I don't think you know where you are! This is a police station.
    Father Dougal: Oh right. Well, in that case, I'll just have the Chicken Satay and a Pilau Rice


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,901 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    I have one. I took out naked lunch by Will S Burroughs. Read the first 40 pages or so. Disgraceful stuff. Never gave it back to the library(kinda forgot about it). So can't use the library anymore.
    Yeah, the copy I had didn't even have any pictures!


    (I hate when my meals have loads of dressing).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,071 ✭✭✭Rosie Rant


    Yeah I do, I go as often as I can. I've gotten quite a few books, DVDs and CDs out. I got my sister's kids signed up for their cards as well. The library is a great resource that everyone should take advantage of.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    I loved the library when I was younger. I would regularly check out new books and they had a pretty decent metal section in the CD collection so I used to take a few of those home at a time and rip them to my PC. This was before I had internet and learned how to just torrent them. It was a great place to go for studying for the LC and JC too, anytime I tried studying from home I'd just be asked to do other random crap around the house. I'd also use it if I needed to research stuff for school projects and I needed to use encyclopaedias that weren't a hundred years outdated. It's probably been a good 10 years since I've set foot in one tho.

    Sadly I think it won't be long before they go the way of HMV and Xtravision. Print will more and more become something used by the elderly and the nostalgic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    I'm terrified of joining the library in Germany. My housemate returned her book a day late and within a week the city council (not the library, the CITY COUNCIL) sent her a cross letter demanding that she pay 30 euro. They probably behead you if you lose your card.

    No way am I messing with those librarians.

    I don't like public libraries anyway. They always smell funny. The one in Drogheda is awful, the librarians just cower in the corner and weep when someone makes a noise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    I dropped kicked someone in the library before


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    yep, I get books on CD to listen to in the car for my commute to and from work - beats listening to the radio.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    Yep, there great things to have & much easier to obtain than medical cards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,079 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    I robbed a library once.

    They threw the book at me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,005 ✭✭✭byrneg28


    I robbed a library once.

    They threw the book at me.

    good jesus


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles


    We go every 2 weeks. My 4 year old loves it. He does jigsaws there and picks out a load of books, then we read one every night.

    Any books we buy him, we donate after a few months. I love our nights at the library, we spend hours there browsing and doing jigsaws.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,037 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    No I prefer to own new books not rent old ones covered in other peoples filthy germs


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    BDJW wrote: »
    Last time I was in a library was when I was in college about 8 years ago :o

    Said every student ever!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,477 ✭✭✭azzeretti


    Sadly I think it won't be long before they go the way of HMV and Xtravision. Print will more and more become something used by the elderly and the nostalgic.

    Very unlikly! Didn't Dun Laoighaire library just spend €36,000,000 (million!) builing a new one? Libraries are unreal nowadays; it's not just books. Lots have free access to internet, games consoles, wifi, multimedia rooms (mac books etc), localhistory, printing, scanning, photocopying, newspapers, audiobooks....... There is very little chance the library will go the way of HMV!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    I'm a member of my old university's library. For €60 a year I have access to all their online academic journals, their academic books and paper journals, the subject librarians and a place to sit and read. It's one of the best €60 I've spent in the past year.

    I also love librarians (and people who work in Waterstones.) I even have a favourite academic who researches libraries. And I've had some awesome chats in the pub with librarians.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,103 ✭✭✭Tiddlypeeps


    azzeretti wrote: »
    Very unlikly! Didn't Dun Laoighaire library just spend €36,000,000 (million!) builing a new one? Libraries are unreal nowadays; it's not just books. Lots have free access to internet, games consoles, wifi, multimedia rooms (mac books etc), localhistory, printing, scanning, photocopying, newspapers, audiobooks....... There is very little chance the library will go the way of HMV!

    That sounds pretty cool, if they are actually updating the services they provide to keep up with the times then I retract my statement.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭ordinary_girl


    Yep, and I'm a regular reader too. I kind of quit buying books when I realised that everytime I move I have to leave most of them behind, this way I get to read all the books I want without have to worry about clutter :) However, I do have about 5 books that I always bring with me.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Paramite Pie


    I'm 27 and I only recently joined a library. So much cheaper than going to a Cafe to use their Wifi for a few hours (i'm an impulse snacker). Easy to get a plug too.

    I'm not a big reader but working on it. It's nice to get away from incessant technology.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 341 ✭✭Flem31


    Joined the local library this time last year and it was a great decision.
    Can look up the catalogue online and can get books\dvd's etc transferred from another library in my county to my local library for pick up.

    It has saved me loads as have largely stopped buying books that are read once and left gathering dust.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,616 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    Yep, being going to libraries since I was a teen (30 now). Doesn't seem to be popular outside of 50 plus and below 18.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    I tried to join the library here when I was a teenager about 26 years ago. When I gave my name the librarian looked up my surname and starting reading a list of names and asked if I was related to them. About three of my sisters had taken books out and kept them. I was told to either bring back the books or pay the library what the books were worth. I had no idea what my sisters had done with the books so that was the last time I've been in the library.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,818 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Mr_Muffin wrote: »
    I had one. I borrowed books a few years back and returned them like you're supposed to. I went to borrow a few more and they told me i never returned the previous ones.


    I lost it and attacked the librarian and her assistant.

    Too right. Nothing worse than losing your library card.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,145 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    I do but I can't remember when I last used it. Wasn't in this decade anyway


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