Turn your pages, see where they take you literature student. forestry nerd. nearly thirty. here to laugh at memes and cry at discourse. sometimes funny in tags. if you're hateful or hurtful you don't belong here
“Don’t use Libby because it costs libraries too much, pirate instead” is such a weird, anti-patron, anti-author take that somehow manages to also be anti-library, in my professional librarian-ass opinion.
It’s well documented that pirating books negatively affects authors directly* in a way that pirating movies or TV shows doesn’t affect actors or writers, so I will likely always be anti-book piracy unless there’s absolutely, positively no other option (i.e. the book simply doesn’t exist outside of online archives at all, or in a particular language).
Also, yeah, Libby and Hoopla licenses are really expensive, but libraries buy them SO THAT PATRONS CAN USE THEM. If you’re gonna be pissed at anybody about this shitty state of affairs, be pissed at publishing companies and continue to use Libby or Hoopla at your library so we can continue to justify having it to our funding bodies.
One of the best ways to support your library having services you like is to USE THOSE SERVICES. Yes, even if they are expensive.
*Yes, this is a blog post, but it’s a blog post filled with links to news articles. If you can click one link, you can click another.
love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. “hey we shouldn’t let venture capitalists get in on this” And Then They Did
Instead of Donuts and Dogs today we went to hang out with some friends. One of them stayed in our home to watch over and medicate Sprinkles when we had to travel and to show our appreciation my betrothed made homemade cinnamon rolls. These are not a casual bake, and need to be shared.
I can confidently tell you that these cinnamon rolls could win competitions. There’s butter in every stage from dough, to filling, to frosting. Cream gets poured over them before they bake. The cream cheese icing is rich and has added vanilla. They added orange zest and cardamom to the cinnamon filling. I go to sleep tonight only to pass the time until my stomach empties enough to permit me to eat another.
Figure I might as well share the recipe with all of you. Here’s where I got the recipe:
All I do different is add 1 tsp cardamom and zest from 1 orange to the filling. And then I use 2 tsp vanilla in the cream cheese frosting and only 1.5 c powdered sugar instead of 2.
I have made this recipe 3 or 4 times now and it always turns out amazing. Highly recommend.
