SOTU 2010

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5 Minutes

OnePlusYou gives us How Many Countries Can You Name in Five Minutes. Try it. The spellings might trip you up but if you can type one per second, you've got it.

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Curious

Interesting site. Curious Pages.

85 Reasons

Jonathan at ZenCollegeLife.com has posted the 85 Reasons to Be Thankful for Librarians. My favorites, silly but often true, are 35: Who else is going to show you how to use that microfiche machine?; 59: Public bathrooms in libraries are usually cleaner than most places and 78:There’s less risk of getting carpal tunnel syndrome from reading books.

Reasons We Don't Read Those Books

The Abe Books blog has this posting: Remaining Unread: The Top Ten Reasons We Don't Get To Certain Books. You'll relate to all the reasons.

"Some co-workers and I were recently at the lunch table talking about (you guessed it) books. The subject turned specifically to lamentations over the books sitting on our shelves unread, collecting dust, while we grow quietly old.

This is a phenomenon I know all too well. So what happens? Why do some books languish unopened in my collection, while fresh young faces shoot to the top of my stack, given precious priority placement at my bedside? I think there are numerous reasons some books take us ages - or forever - to read. Here are my top 10." Beth Carswell

I especially liked links to the 25 We Just Couldn't Read. Makes me feel a bit less guilty myself.