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Comment on Sony Reader PRS-505 by The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing ebook | Infoism

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing ebook | Infoism — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 10:30:25 +0000

[...] a big fan of ebooks. I bought a Sony PRS-505 way back in 2008 (still in full working order). was on a task group for the local authority looking into the [...]

Comment on No Furniture So Charming – The Future for Libraries by Editor de imagens

Editor de imagens — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:09:12 +0000

I surely agree with “katy on April 23, 2011 at 4:12 pm” when she says libraries should be much more then just a cozy place with a nice collection of books. There have to be more services and much more amenities so that people realize that a library is not that cold place it used to be centuries ago. Let’s get people to culture using all the possible ways available.

Comment on Volunteers running libraries by tom gelsthorpe

tom gelsthorpe — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:01:27 +0000

I gave up in trying to enter the library service even though I was heading to become a qualified librarian just as the recession started as I couldn’t see a future in it after listening to my family in that job cuts were going to come eventually with the current economic crisis. I also thought I’d be spinning around in circles forever more reading job rejections and not getting anywhere. I believe I am capable of doing a librarian’s job and do not feel the need to prove myself to anyone in the service. I realised that the next best thing was to do pure English and administration for a career as there’s more openings. It’s sad that more library’s are being run by volunteers which means the quality of service may go down, but with the growth of the internet, electronic books, e – books, video books and audio books I may just have made the right decision. It is a pity as I had a lot to offer the library service.

Comment on Why Niall Ferguson, Ken Livingstone and Toby Young got it wrong on national debt by Christopher

Christopher — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:11:16 +0000

Private Debt -> Consumption -> Boosts Growth -> Boosts Tax Revenues -> Can’t go on forever.

What many miss is the growth in Private Debt and what many do not acknowledge is that that Government does not have money. People have money and pay taxes. Those people have to contribute to national debt repayments through their taxes or directly to their own private debt obligations. It all comes from the people.

Over regulation, wage controls, and such like have COSTS despite the many assumed BENEFITS. The “anointed” with their views of a “problem” and application of “solutions” has been the biggest failure of our times. The generation of self-inflicted wounds.

Comment on Flavors.me – A Portal to Your Social Networks by Collins Ryan

Collins Ryan — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:32:34 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the same thing for along time,how it could be great,to just access all my networks from one place, though what Chris points out is important and most definitely a must have. I think,in as much as I can link all my social networks together, I must have a level of control, in maintaining and setting the level of autonomy of each of my networks from the others.

Comment on KPMG – The driving force behind library closures? by We need information on ‘special interests’ |

We need information on ‘special interests’ | — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:54:12 +0000

[...] are also questionable. KPMG, for example, are listed as having links with parliamentary staff. It was KPMG who first floated the idea of libraries run by volunteers in a report published last yea…. With the current situation facing public libraries across the country, it is hard not to come to [...]

Comment on Why Niall Ferguson, Ken Livingstone and Toby Young got it wrong on national debt by John

John — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:13:06 +0000

So Ken was right if he said before the Credit Crunch rather than when Brown left office. Which I think is what he meant. Ferguson was way out – as usual. His facts in his books are rather spurious as well.

The deficit up until the CC was small. Then a massive hype to bail out Northern Rock then it hit the fan from the USA and all countries were in the same boat.

The right wing say Brown ruined the economy which is total bunkum. He never created the CC. He ran the economy well until the CC, all figures prove that. The booming economy was for all to see. We had 1 million Poles working here to do the immense construction tasks. Provincial city skylines rose with skyscrapers.

Ferguson claims to be some sort of economic historian. He did not do economics to my knowledge.

Comment on 5.7 million households do not have an internet connection by Arguments against libraries, arguments for libraries | The Daily Librarian

Arguments against libraries, arguments for libraries | The Daily Librarian — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:45:45 +0000

[...] internet”. One has to both be able to afford the internet and be able to use it. 23% of the population would not have access without libraries, likely the same one-fifth that needs the information the most. Also, while we’re on [...]

Comment on Spreading my wings… by Ian

Ian — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:39:43 +0000

Er, um, yeah…I knew that :-S

Comment on Spreading my wings… by tamsin

tamsin — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:23:42 +0000

Nice! I recommend using CSS over too much html but you probably already knew that!