technological swings and roundabouts

on the one hand: digital borrowing from the library is great! I can get books out at 3 a.m. from the comfort of my own bed!

on the other: there is no option to return your digital loan late. it self-returns automatically. this is a pity when you're going to be about ten pages short of the end of the non-fiction with the multi-month hold queue when your loan period is up.

on the gripping: screenshots.

(This has the notable disadvantage that unless I was willing to apply slightly more thought than I actually did, for the last ten pages I wound up having to turn pages backwards. Crucially, though, I finished the damn book, by dint of taking screenshots of the last 15 or so pages -- i.e. not enough to be a real nuisance to screenshot, and also few enough to be really annoying to have not Quite managed -- 6 minutes before it was going to return, and then keeping going as long as possible in Libby...)

Still chewing over what I made of the actual book (NeuroTribes, Steve Silberman). Thoughts to follow, possibly.