rent-a-book?

[Ponine]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

We know who she is. She is 3894. Also known as Helen Johnson. You can find about the book she wrote with her husband here.

Okay, point for 3894, we do know who she is.
However, I also know that she has a more... prolific side, with another name.
That book I already own, it's in the ready to read pile.

[Alex]

I read it. It is interesting and surprisingly will stay in my permanent keep collection (not because I am surprised they wrote an interesting book but because I only permanently keep books within a couple very narrow topical ranges and I was surprised to find that this book was in one of them).

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by DreadPirateRoberts

I wonder if they considered rechargable AAs. We use them all the time and have had good luck with them.

GD and I made the jump to rechargables ourselves and I'm never going back. For a library that has constant check outs and returns though, dealing with rechargables would mean either investing in tons of rechargers or swapping them out of a few rechargers constantly, and both ways you've got huge time commitments involved.

[libraryvixen]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

For a library that has constant check outs and returns though, dealing with rechargables would mean either investing in tons of rechargers or swapping them out of a few rechargers constantly, and both ways you've got huge time commitments involved.

Our library is going into the Playaway business starting next year sometime. There was much debate on the rechargeable battery issue. It went back and forth. They finally decided on non-rechargeable. *shrug* But again.. thanks to my wishy-washy system, that could change in a heartbeat and then all of a sudden we have chargers in the inter-library shipment.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by libraryvixen

Our library is going into the Playaway business starting next year sometime. There was much debate on the rechargeable battery issue. It went back and forth. They finally decided on non-rechargeable. *shrug* But again.. thanks to my wishy-washy system, that could change in a heartbeat and then all of a sudden we have chargers in the inter-library shipment.

The idea of all those disposables ending up in landfills....yeech. I'd probably boycott the thing if they implemented it here.

Are they at least figuring out how to dispose of them properly?

[libraryvixen]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

The idea of all those disposables ending up in landfills....yeech. I'd probably boycott the thing if they implemented it here.

Are they at least figuring out how to dispose of them properly?

Ugh... the stink I made didn't make a hill of beans to them. Their solution is to give us a box labeled "used batteries". Now, they didn't say where the full box was going to go... but then again, they don't think too much ahead.

If they'd only invest in iPod compatible audio books, there would be a lot more traffic and interest. I don't think there is a mass market service like Recorded Books that does that though.