My LINKcat AccountI guess the serious countdown to Christmas starts today. There are exactly 10 days - that's 240 hours, 14,400 minutes, or 864,000 seconds - between now and Christmas Day. If your family celebration is anything like my family's celebration, Christmas Eve is the time for the eating of a festive meal, the scarfing down of delicious cookies, the drinking of the egg nog, and the opening of the presents. Christmas Day was the time to go to church, sing, and recover from Christmas Eve. If you are a Christmas Eve celebrant, you have only nine days - 9 days, or 216 hours, 12,960 minutes or 777,600 seconds. But even in the hustle and bustle surrounding the holidays, there is always time to put your feet up for a few minutes with a good book - and we have lots of them. A sampling is listed below. If you do happen to get a Kindle for Christmas - or already have one-you can checkout Kindle books from the library as well. If you visit our web page at : www.deforestlibrary.org you will see a picture of a Kindle. Click on that picture and follow the links which will take you to the Wisconsin Public Library Consortium webpage. There you can find many books available for checkout using your Kindle. Next year the Consortium will be buying a million dollars-worth of digital books which will help immensely with availability (Yes, there are hold lists on these titles too!) and the breadth of the collection. You will need your library card to be able to check out these Kindle titles. Isn't technology swell? Enjoy the books! Enjoy the season!
