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We do this thing at the Kingston library where people can sign up to come in 15 minutes before we open on days that I work and I can talk them through using our downloadable materials. This has become increasingly popular after Christmas - I had one last Thursday, one today, and another one later this week.

What I do when I'm helping people is to go through the download process a couple times and, if they don't know what they want to check out, I'll just take the first thing on the list (and show them how to delete it if they don't want it).

The last two people I've had sessions with have wanted to know how to use the audiobooks. I have sent both of them away with audiobooks of Les Miserables.

Three weeks for a sixty-hour audiobook. Good luck, you guys!

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I have gotten past the Convent Digression* in Les Miserables! I feel ridiculously proud of myself. Possibly now that I have properly gotten through the Bishop and Waterloo, everything else feels easier.

Also, after you get through the preliminary convent stuff, it's like someone dropped a Gothic novel into the middle of Les Miz. Those are some seriously hardcore nuns in a seriously creepy nunnery - I'm honestly a little surprised that it didn't turn out to be haunted or full of secret Satanist witches.

I suppose that would be a very different book, though.




*Okay, I will admit that I skimmed the chapter where Victor Hugo goes, "And now that I have told you about the hardcore nuns and the creepy nunnery, let me tell you in exacting detail about the physical layout of the convent!" But that is mostly because I do not think very visually and don't really build mental pictures when I read, which makes passages of pure static visual description with nothing happening really really boring and kinda frustrating.

And this is why, unless there has been some sort of film adaptation that I have watched a lot, I have no idea what the characters in my favorite books look like. Except that almost none of them are blonde - apparently, in my mind, fictional people just aren't.