“I’m a fox. It’s January. I’m hungry. I want a meal. My food, however, is buried 3 feet down, deep in the snow, hiding. It’s alive, in motion, and very small, being a mouse. So how does an above-ground fox catch an underground mouse? Well, the answer is nothing short of astonishing.” (via NPR)
Category: General Internet Information
‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ Sales Spike Amid Surveillance Disclosures
“According to Amazon.com Inc. sales data posted earlier Tuesday, one edition of the 64-year-old book jumped more than 7,000% in its overall sale rankings since the beginning of the week. Ranked 13,074 on Monday, the title is now in the top 200. . . .” Read more at the Wall Street Journal
You can check out and read this book for free at the Sargent library.
1984
Free Kindle E-Books
Lots of people have received new e-readers for Christmas. This means that that many people are also looking for new e-books to download. Unfortunately, our library can’t afford to subscribe to Nebraska Overdrive. However there are other ways to get free e-books. Many authors or publishers will give away free e-books for a few days or less in order to create interest in their book. Your job is to find these books while they are free before they go back to being the normal price. I have accumulated a number of different websites that let you know about some of the best free books. Since I have a Kindle, all of the sites are for that format. However, many times when a book is free on Amazon, it is also free on Barnes and Noble or other sites.
The hardest part about free e-books isn’t finding them. The hard part is finding time to read them all. 🙂
Need any books digitized? This is the way to do it.
Identity Theft
Having your identity stolen is a terrible experience. The Federal Trade Commission, in partnership with the Public Library Association, has produced a suite of materials on identity theft and identity protection and made them available for download or bulk ordering from the FTC website http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft2012/.
Brochures on the website offer tips for recognizing child identity theft. Three animated videos are also available.
Tuesday, September 25th, is National Voter Registration Day. Are you registered to vote?
