I have loved libraries since I was a little boy. They\u2019ve always been havens of peace and quiet, and of knowledge and entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent more time there as an adolescent student, not just for homework but delving deep into things that would shape my future careers. Living in a capitol city since age nine, I discovered early not only state libraries, but state legal<\/em> libraries. (Even at age twelve or so, I knew the librarians at the state legal library must have worried about the strange kid who was studying lethal force law, but they were still patient and helpful.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Every now and then in my present travels, I find a big part of a day free, and if there\u2019s nothing else of interest in town my default is the local public library. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And before leaving, I always check out the \u201cdiscarded books for sale\u201d section. Sometimes they\u2019re duplicates of something current that won\u2019t fit on the shelves. Sometimes they\u2019re titles that didn\u2019t gather much popularity in town, but might be of interest to you or me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I had the good fortune recently to drop by my current local library on the last day of their annual Book Sale Days. Lo and behold, they were cleaning them out at ten cents per hardcover copy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trying not to be a hog, and not owning a wheelbarrow in any case, I limited myself to eleven books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They all had their book jackets intact, ten of which had their sale price imprinted thereon. One, a 1992 novel by ex-LAPD detective Joseph Wambaugh that I didn\u2019t remember reading when it came out, curiously didn\u2019t have a price mark. The other ten, though, added up to an average of @23.37 cover price.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I bought those eleven books for a total tally of a dollar bill and a dime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Did I mention that I\u2019ve always loved libraries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have loved libraries since I was a little boy. They\u2019ve always been havens of peace and quiet, and of knowledge and entertainment. I spent more time there as an adolescent student, not just for homework but delving deep into things that would shape my future careers. Living in a capitol city since age nine, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6991\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}