“The Bridges across forever” is actually a book by that pilot, Richard Bach. But this isn’t about his book. This is about the library where I found it.
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Booklists

As I am preparing for a surgery and to be inside for several days away from my current home, I suddenly realize this is the opportunity to catch on some reading and empty my imaginary ‘Books I’m curious about + Books to finish reading’ lists.

For some of them, I search online. But can’t find anything available yet. That’s when I remember about that other list: “Books that various people nag/nagged had strongly recommended me to read”.

The most recent addition on the nag list:
“The Bridges across Forever” by Richard Bach

FYI I’m open-minded about that list after “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
turned out to be a delightful and delicious read 😋 Although I’m still not that keen on reading the “Feynman lectures on physics”. Perhaps another time.

Finding the book

Lately, I look for pdf versions of books online or borrow from friends or search on kindle unlimited.

Sometimes I borrow books from the Open Library.

Open Library

is one of the many projects by the late Aaron Swartz. It aims at digitizing all books available and providing them freely to the public.

You can borrow a book up to 13 days or get on the waiting list until it becomes available. In the case of that R. Bach book, it was lent out, but the moment I got on the waiting list it became available. Guess it was overdue ^^

The minor detail is the books are scanned. They do have encrypted EPUBs and PDFs available but you can only access them with the computer. So I’m left with reading the scanned yellowed pages of an old book on my phone screen. A bit surreal. I wouldn’t be surprised if it gave out an old book smell too.

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Open Library had just recently collected donations in ETH to keep it running . How cool would it be if they use Steem and @fundition in the future?

~ by anmitsu
building bridges across eternity