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I get a kick out of him telling his son to look up a word in a dictionary if he can't spell it rather than just asking someone. Our teachers did that, too, in order to help us learn. But I still don't get how I can look up a word to learn how to spell it if I can't find it in the dictionary because I can't spell it! 
Eventually, yes, but teachers always wanted us to look it up quickly and move on to the next lesson. 
And I swear they design TVs with the controls hidden behind thin, hard-to-spot panel doors just to mess with us. 
It gets a little too embarrassingly creative, at times. And I also have well-used, worn dictionaries, but still never mastered the HurryUpAndFindThatWord strategy my teachers used. I'd get distracted by other words I found while searching, too. 
Ha! As for tiny lettering,... My arms are obviously shortening because the lettering can't possibly be shrinking at a continuing rate without completely disappearing! Could it? 
I had finished one but not the other so I decided to just renew them online a few days before they were due. Well, I was unable to renew them because my card was going to expire in October and you can't renew your card online and you can't renew your books online if your card expires during the renewal period. 
I squeezed in a trip to the library which isn't exactly close but not horribly out of my way.
When I got there, I was told the computers were down so they couldn't check in books. They could not check out books. They could not renew the cards either. I asked if I could give them my information and have them enter it when the system was back up since my books were now due THAT day. No, there was nothing they could do. Well, what about the fines when these books aren't checked in? "We'll take this into consideration" she said. I left one book and kept the other.
Remember in the "old days" when all you did was sign a little card and they stamped the due date in the book and you went your merry way?
The computer now controls everything you can and can't do at the library! It's all the ammo the terrorists need. Simply disable servers and life as we know it will cease to exist, lol.
Eh, I went back to the library the next day and a most pleasant librarian said they needed to work on a back up plan, that it would have been perfectly fine to take down the information since I had my card with me and the books were already checked out in my name. She removed the fine from my account and we had a little chat about computers and the old fashioned way of doing things.
This article reminded me of how dependent we are on technology! 
