How did I realize that I love to read? I have my library card number memorized!
How did I realize that I love to read? I have my library card number memorized!
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How did I realize that I love to read? I have my library card number memorized!
As do I. Isn’t it fun to be such a reader?
Not only can I tell you my current card number but I also remember the one I had seven years ago.
I do too. I use it now mainly for ebooks. But yrp, I know mine by heart, too.
No you have been to the library so much that the check out person knows your number.
There are more self checkout lines than manned lines at my local branch. I know my number by heart.
Sharla Desy I’ve only recently returned to the library instead of downloading ebooks all the time. I was shocked that I never encountered a librarian because of the self check out. I kind of prefer the smaller branches in town where librarians still man the front desk, ask how your visit was, if you found everything you needed, make recommendations, etc.
@Lori , I’m with you regarding the value of interaction with library staff. It’s still there at my library, along with the option of zipping in, grabbing your books and going, sometimes in less time than it takes to walk to the building from the parking lot. I am very fortunate that libraries are well funded in my community and can offer both options.
Same!! I’m so proud of it, too! ??
How do we help our kids/grandkids to love reading tho with all the games and other stuff taking them away!?
Read to them!! Take them to the library! Did I say READ TO THEM!!!!
Read to them, engage them, make the library or bookstore an adventure. They’ll still be plugged in, Pandora won’t get back in that box, but there’s ways. My god daughter watched Netflix A series of unfortunate events, I bought her the next few books in the series.
@Glenda I totally agree, yet…. longer story
This is hard. My nephew is 12 and all he wants to do is watch TV. We’ve bought him books, let him pick them out at B&N and the library and he’s just not interested now that he’s a big boy. Short of being mean auntie and simply turning off the TV and snatching his tablet from him, I don’t know how to get him back into reading.
Provide them with books, make a big deal out of trips to the library, read to them (even when they’re able to read by themselves), and most importantly, let them see you reading. Humans – especially children – are naturally drawn to stories. We only have to provide them with opportunities.
@Lori Boys often turn away from reading in the middle and high school years. If he has a good foundation and continued exposure to books, though, he may very well find his way back.
Kids need to see the important adults in their lives reading. It normalizes the activity for them. Monkey see, monkey do.
Me too!
I have the same actual card that I got 55 years ago, same card so same number. Before this card my library card was from a city library, and I’d had that card since probably kindergarten. Obviously I’ve lived in the same place most of my life.
I know mine too!
Wow! I love that you know your card number! I did not have a library or a card when growing up, but I had a wonderful aunt who was like a sister who insisted that I read! My parents were readers and encouraged my reading, too! I will always be so very grateful!
Me too!
Me too.
Same.
I had the same number since I was 5 but then last year they went to a different system and I had to get a new bar code number. So sad ?
I have mine memorized as well. Something that I have never admitted to before. Too funny ?
I have to especially when I am ordering inter library!
Both my daughter and I knew our old library card number
Me too.
Best used piece of plastic in my wallet!
Yep, it happens!
Mine is listed in my contacts on my phone
I can still remember my childhood library card number.
Same!
Me too, because I’ve become really lazy and just reserve the books online and wait to be notified.
Yes! That’s why I have mine memorized, too. 🙂
Me too!
I have my library card number memorized also.
This librarian loves to hear this. Our card numbers are 13 digits.
Me, too!
I have mine memorized!
Me, too. My county is closing or consolidating 7 libraries… because they spent millions to build the Atlanta Braves stadium. I’m a huge baseball fan but a bigger reader. You can bet I’m going to the Town Hall meeting!!!
I had to check where you were. The Braves are building a spring training facility here and Sarasota county actually added a library.
Our town hall meetings are at the end of June. I’m beyond upset with them closing libraries!!!
Call your county board and city council members.
Amazon automatically downloads my book purchases to my Kindle. Does that count?
Not quite where this conversation was going, but I realized I loved to read when I found myself as the ONLY middle schooler who carried a book to read (perish the thought) FOR FUN back and forth to school each day. And it’s been the same ever since.
Me too. But I would also read in classes too.
lolol…
Me, too!
Me too! I also have one from my old library in another state for digital books.
I remember the day I got my library card when I was 6 years old. I took out 7 books!
Me too!
Everybody in my local library knows my library membership number! lol
Me too!
Me, too.
I’ve memorized my Mastercard number. (I have the sales resistance of an ash tray.)
Me, too
I have had it memorized for years. People are always surprised when I rattle it off, including?? librarians.
Library is home
You and me both!