As Promised.

Those nerd-tastic photos that were anxiously awaiting posting are here, for your viewing pleasure, now. You will now gain some insight into what went through my head in the hours and hours I spent going through shelves and shelves of books for my current work project. (Also, I send my apologies to the poor library workers who had to reshelf all of those shelves and shelves of books, over the weeks that I was buried in the stacks. Universe, make sure that apology gets to the right person, por favor.)

  

I would look at the cards in the back of the books (For entertainment, naturally. A girl's gotta get her kicks somewhere, right?) and wonder about who checked out the books before. Given the subject matter, it's almost a guarantee that it was for an assignment- this stuff isn't light reading. 

People were reading this book before I was a twinkle in my father's eye, as they say. I wonder where they were from and where they are now. Would they remember checking this particular bit of paper and binding out? I also wonder about the timing- the spurts of interest and the years lapsed between check-outs. Wouldn't it be a bummer to be a book that just sat there, languishing for years in between times that people decided the information on it's pages was worth reading? Sad. (...I might have a habit of over anthropomorphizing objects. Maybe.)

...Now that I have firmly established what a nerd I am, on to the next!

 

I thought that in light of recent world events, this comment left by some unknown reader was appropriate. Also, I think the words that are visible on this page are entertaining. Hope you do too!