Thursday, January 24, 2008

Like Netflix, but for books and slower

One of the many fantastic benefits of being married to Adam is that he's a very active "patron" of our library system. The public library is pretty fantastic. You can put books on hold online and get them transferred from other libraries in the system. Once a week or so, Adam picks up all the books that have come in for him at the library. I described it to MGDub as, "It's like Netflix, but for books and free, but slower." What's fabulous for me is the soup to nuts service Adam provides: he picks the books, gets the books and returns the books. Recently, he got me A.J. Jacobs' "The year of living biblically," a man's quest to follow the bible very literally for an entire year. It's utterly hilarious and I highly recommend it. He grows a giant beard, wears white, tries to kindly "stone" Sabbeth breakers, etc. He approaches his project with such sincerity that while the book is slightly irreverent, he doesn't mock the Bible. I was also pleasantly surprised to discover that the author is a fellow Zrown alum. Go Zrown!

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