Not a ‘customer’ or a ‘member’ or anything ordinary like that, no siree. When the lady who was filling out my card got interrupted she said she was “setting up a new borrower”. The word gave me a lovely cosy curled-up-in-a-nest-of-books feeling.

The library around the corner from the office turned out to be quite small and not very well organised, but it’s still a lot more books than I’d have access to otherwise. And my spiffy new card gives me access to all the city libraries, so when I have time or if I want something specific I can make a trip to one of the bigger ones. I get to borrow eight – eight! – books at a time, though I only got three today because they were closing for lunch. Should keep me going for a couple days at least :o)