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Slow Cooking With Your Kindle
I’ve been exploring Everett Public’s Kindle holdings on Overdrive, which one can link to from our homepage. E-Readers have their detractors, but I enjoy the convenience of selecting a book at any hour...
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EBooks at the Everett Public Library
EBooks are a relatively new thing in the history of written stuff. Sure, there were clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, and hand-copied books for eons back in the mists of time, but even mass-produced...
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How to Check Out an eBook
In my last post, I highlighted all the great eBooks the library owns. I know. You’re saying, “Ron, Everett Public Library has a fine collection of eBooks, but I don’t know the first thing about...
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Sherlockmania!
He is one of the most recognizable names in literature. Hundreds of pastiches by copious authors have been written about his character. Movie and TV series abound. Parodies aimed at all ages...
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Getting Started with eBooks
Technology is wonderful….when it works. EBooks are convenient, portable and a great way to take many tomes on vacation without having to check an extra bag at the airport. When things don’t work out,...
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e-Reading in Everett
I have been wanting an e-reader ever since the debut of the Kindle in November 2007. After watching prices drop and much back and forth, I broke down and bought a Nook a few weeks ago, even though the...
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The Bookshop on Film and Page
At the start of the film The Bookshop it is 1959 and a young widow living in a small English town decides to open a bookshop. After six months of negotiations, she is able to purchase an old building...
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Me and My Shadow(s)
As a child, my family moved around quite a bit. My mom always framed it as an adventure. Sometimes I didn’t even consider the idea that we were not coming back to a neighborhood until we were actually...
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Not That Kind of Party
I was once standing in line in a bookshop (remember those, the humming thrum of all those captured words waiting to be freed from the shelves so they could release their stories?) when the couple in...
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Did You Know? (Wagon Edition)
The ‘little red wagon’ was invented in 1917? I found this information in the book Radio Flyer by Robert Pasin. New to America in 1914, Anthony Pasin studied English and worked many jobs. His struggle...
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Night Train
Parts of Night Train by David Quantick really scared me… in that “this-has-got-to-be-a-dream-why-can’t-I-wake-up” kind of way. Other times I just felt claustrophobic. Maybe that’s because it’s how the...
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Shell Scott Mysteries
Be it because my brain is so focused on various worries or because I use up all my reading neurons on news, I currently have very little interest in perusing for pleasure. Add to this that I typically...
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Explore our eLibrary
Most local libraries offer a good selection of digital books, movies, and music, as well as research and other databases for learning, business, auto repair, etc. Everett Public Library is no...
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School at Home: Week 1
Whew! I’m sweating just thinking about this school year, and I don’t even have kids. As a former teacher, I know the breadth of the responsibilities you now shoulder if you have kids at home doing...
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Schooled at Home? Week 2
This will be a school year unlike any other. It will be embedded in the mind of your youngsters for probably the rest of their lives, for better and worse. Some miss the joy of reuniting with friends...
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Rakes, Rogues, and Ruination
Welcome to the world of the British Regency, the era from approximately 1795-1837. Everett Public Library has added over 100 Regency Romance novels to our eBook collection. Don’t let the time period...
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She Lies Close
A lot is going on for Grace in the novel She Lies Close by Sharon Doering. After her husband has an affair, Grace buys a house in a new neighborhood with her two young children Wyatt and Chloe. As...
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EPL’s Virtual Book Club says Bah! Humbug! to 2020!
Books with a general winter theme are the focus of discussion at our next meeting of the library’s virtual book club (Stay Home, Stay Reading) December 28 from 6-7pm. Read any title–fiction or...
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What’s New in our eLibrary?
This past year a major goal for the library has been to improve and increase our online offerings. Take a look at some of the new content we have available now. Overdrive/Libby – New Genre...
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Seek the Unknown
Have you checked out the libraries eBook and eAudio collections lately? If not, you are in for a treat. One of the few silver linings of the current times in the library world, is the growing...
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