capybeby

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[–] capybeby 3 points 2 months ago

The city I work in prohibits the selling or giving away of city property so we aren’t allowed to sell them (and truly most of the time they are so old and crusty and yucky that no one would pay any amount of money for them), but if the quality of books is super high we sneakily donate them to More Than Words. That being said we do hold book sales stocked by donations from patrons and the proceeds go into our programming budget.

[–] capybeby 3 points 2 months ago

Hahaha that is hilarious!!

Probably the time I had a book come back with the pages taped back together in a completely random order. Created a wild ride of a story lol

[–] capybeby 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Depends on the library and the type of book. Typical time frames are 10 years, 7 years, 5 years, or 2 years. For example I work in an busy urban library in the children’s room and we were running out of space in our fiction novel section so we did a 5 year then a 2 year when the first one didn’t make enough space. Our biography section grows less quickly so we do 7 year weeds.

[–] capybeby 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It does! We gotta clear space on the shelves sometimes for new books :)

[–] capybeby 4 points 2 months ago

I love the icons in settings! I’m hella dyslexic and seeing the individual settings in the long lists of words can be super hard but the icons give me really easy and intuitive touch points that I can scan for instead. Y’all are amazing!

[–] capybeby 4 points 3 months ago

It is a blanket lol but it’s just throw size.

I had never considered printing on a shower curtain!! That’s hilarious and I will definitely be stealing that gift idea so thank you!

[–] capybeby 18 points 4 months ago (6 children)

We Found a Hat! One of my favorite picturebooks.

[–] capybeby 1 points 5 months ago

It’s giving low fi beats hip hop beats to relax/study to

 

I’ve always ment for it to be helpful, but I can see it being read rude or passive aggressive. Thank you in advance for your time and your thoughts!

[–] capybeby 4 points 5 months ago

I’ve had a mix of both but that is a good point

[–] capybeby 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably election relation. 🤞for you that it calms down

[–] capybeby 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thank you!! Through this I discovered that registering to vote in one state does not invalidate your old registration…

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4 years ago I was a Pennsylvania resident and registered voter. I have since moved to another state and have switched my voter registration. I had assumed changing my registration would be sufficient however, I am on some list of PA voters bc I get A LOT (oh my god it’s so much) of political texts and calls. It’s too late for this election and perhaps it won’t be so bad next time, and I wish they weren’t wasting their time and that my inbox weren’t so full.

 

The T can be… well the way the T is, but today I had such a nice interaction with one of the bus drivers! I was running late on my daily commute and was a full block away from the bus stop when I saw the bus approaching. There was no chance I was making it, even at a full out sprint, so I was accepting my fate of having to take my alternate route as the bus drove by, but the driver honked to ask if I was getting on! He recognized me and let me board at not even a little bit the bus stop! I am so touched and can’t stop smiling at the driver’s kindness.

 

Hello! I am currently making a reading tracking website (a la Goodreads, StoryGraph, and LibraryThing) as a personal project and have hit a bit of a wall, so I've come to the internet for ideas.

What do y'all like about your tracking service of choice. What features do you think are cool or important? Are there any things that your service doesn't do that you wish it did?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

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Get in bitch (sh.itjust.works)
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Fancy shelter cat (sh.itjust.works)
 

My shelter cat who we are 99% is a Turkish angora!

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submitted 1 year ago by capybeby to c/funny
 
 

Hello all! I mostly use StoryGraph (my name is creadstoomuch if you wanna be friends), but I was wondering what other options y'all have found that work for you. There are many things I like about it (the fact that it is not an Amazon product, the design, the stats, the currently reading tracking abilities) but there are also some things I don't like (the drop down menus behaving irregularly and, in some places, very poorly being my biggest issue). I also use LibraryThing to find my next reads but it doesn't have the currently reading tracking of StoryGraph.

So what do you use? I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by capybeby to c/[email protected]
 

Hey all! I think at one point I changed the balance of my audio output (an earbud was a little dead so I shifted the amount of sound coming out of the left and right to compensate). I’ve long since gotten a new pair of headphones but sometimes I connect them and the balance has reverted back! It drives me bananas (I’m the sort of person who must turn on the mono sound accessibility feature bc stereo effects make me dizzy) and I have no idea if it’s something I’m doing to trigger the behavior or if I’m stuck with it until this computer dies.

Anyone else experiencing this or have any ideas about how to fix it?

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