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I recently found out that you can download like basically every magazine for free on libby (shoutout the library?) and read them in your bed in the morning. Like a healthy morning scroll except it doesn’t make you feel awful.
Jan 26, 2024
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What they don't want you to know about that paywall is that you can get the viral New York Mag article or whatever on the Libby app. Having a library card is very dope for many reasons but especially because I don't have to pay for the New Yorker or the Paris Review
Apr 3, 2024
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I am truly obsessed with the Libby app. If you have a library card, a phone, and an e-reader, it is a free library in your phone/tablet/whatever. Billions and bazillions of audiobooks and books and more for free. A great way to try new books or audiobooks at your own pace, and there are no late fees. Perfection.
Feb 14, 2024
Did you know that you can check out books from the library and read them on your phone?? Or a Kindle? (Superior experience IMO) And if you live in New York you can have THREE library cards at once and put holds on books at the Queens, Brooklyn, and New York branches to see which comes available first or simply scour all three for an old, dusty, rare read? It’s the best!
Jan 27, 2024
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so fucking accurate 10/10. like…correct
Jan 31, 2024
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Videos. Journals. Planners. Calendars. Playlists. Spreadsheets. Letters to open in the future.
Keeping track of the present (in a way that is low stakes and fun) keeps me from dwelling on the past or feeling upset about changing. It will be there for me if and when I want to return to it! And I get to dip into the things I have thought and felt and loved in the past and maybe they become part of my life again or they don't!
I also love to experiment with form in the ways that I record myself. Journals are a classic, but doing something like journaling in a planner with limited space or on a calendar means you have to pick just one memory from each day. Or making playlists / watchlists / reading lists of what's important to you at a time. Embarking upon fun little challenges of discovery (places, songs, books, movies, foods) and keeping track of what you learn in an organized (or disorganized) way! Video journals or little vlogs just for yourself! Scrapbooking!
Fun in the moment to create and fun in the future to rediscover.
Jan 26, 2024
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it’s a shit game so if you’re gonna play it at least go for a little “nice to come home” when you land on one of your own properties
Feb 14, 2024