LIBRARY CARD TO DO LIST

I loved having real, tangible cards in library books as a kid.  You'd feel so connected to the other people who took the same journey through the book as you as you read their names and saw the dates stamped haphazardly down the blue lines of the card.  That cozy sort of feeling you got when you saw that Susie checked out the same book in 1955, then again in May of '55, so it must have been good.  They may not even remember that they read that book way back then, so I always felt a little like an archaeologist, digging up memories and experiences long forgotten.  And you can't forget that satisfying dull thump of the stamp on the book when they checked your stack out at the front desk and the chemical smell of wet ink mixed with the warm vanilla of an old book.  Oh, I miss that.  Maybe I was just a weird kid, too.

I recently stumbled into a big box of old library cards, complete with lick and stick sleeves and I couldn't help myself.  Most of them are going into our books at home- I think it would be really nice to "check out" books that we read to have a sort of record of when we read them.  I took a few of them, though, and used them as a handy little to-do list, which I've put up here for you to use.  Just click on the link here to download the card.