I did go to the library a lot as a kid, and we had a branch that was pretty close to my family’s house, and also like the mall. So sometimes we would go shopping for something, and then we’d go to the library afterwards. And I remember my favorite thing there being their encyclopedias, because we didn’t have a set of encyclopedias at my house. But being able to go in and sit down in one of the like, really soft, you know, well-touched wooden tables and chairs that they had there, and just be able to take a book off the shelf and look up anything, and fact find about anything.
And then I quickly discovered that, you know, in an encyclopedia you’re lucky if you get one paragraph about any subject, so I started thinking oh, there’s so much more out there to learn. And of course, you know, the internet fills in that gap very nicely for young people today, but that was my favorite thing to do. And also looking at the old magazines and periodicals always made me really happy. I remember discovering microfiche and being able to do book reports where you would look back at, you know, this day of 200 years ago, or whatever. And then, I mean, I was in San Francisco so the San Francisco Chronicle, which was our newspaper had a pretty long history, and so it was really neat to be able to dig through archives and discover, you know, who people had been, and yeah. So that’s — I think I was looking for information and history in the library.
