oh, very well

Figuring that somebody will spill the beans on the surprises sooner or later, I went to the bookstore yesterday and read the last 150 pages of Harry Potter VI.

It took about half an hour. Big type. Lots of white space. Lots of skimmable sludge.

I remember actually enjoying the first book in this series, but there's not a power in the 'verse could get me to go back and read the first 500 slabs of this tome.

( not quite any spoilers here )

the library is falling!

Regularly some distressed humanist writes a panicked article about the decline and fall of the university library. There are often some good points, but usually the concern is vastly overstated. Here's one such article. ( And here's my comments. )