Ever since the SFist Reads column turned us back onto the awesomeness of checking books out of the SF Public Library, we've been big fans of the First Stop area of the Main Library, where the library put all their books they'd acquired in the last two years. We've spent many a pleasant few hours checking out the latest memoirs, or all the books in the 300 section, or randomly pulling out titles in the......

Have you checked out the eBooks and eAudio at the SFPL? We're itching to try out the audio options, but they don't have anything that works on Macs or iPods. Boo! After a weekend double feature of In Cold Blood and Capote, both never seen before by SFist Rain, she got the urge to actually, finally, read the book that was (in a sense) responsible for both films: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It......

While the name of this column is "SFist Reads", we have to ask: has anyone used the SFPL's online reserve system to reserve DVDs? We're just not as Netflixy as we used to be, and we're starting to wonder if the library might be a good substitute. Let us know your experiences in the comments! SFist Eve just finished Max Barry's novel Company, a brilliantly angry distillation of the workplace follies mocked by Dilbert......

Wow, another year of SFist Reads seems to have whipped right by. Another year of online reserves checked out from the SF Public Library, another year of shopping at our fine local independent bookstores. As we here at SFist have eyes in the back of our heads, we happily look back over 2005 and ahead to 2006 for this year-end edition of SFist Reads. SFist Matt (an opportunity for wit will never pass this......

We at SFist love our independent bookstores. We cried when Kepler's closed and cheered when it reopened. Every week in SFist Reads we urge you to visit the many fine independent bookstores scattered around the Bay Area. So we're giddy about the new Cody's Books at 2 Stockton Street, in the old Planet Hollywood space across from the Apple store. Cody's, a Berkeley institution started by Pat and Fred Cody in 1959 and now......

Big ups to SFist Eve for this week's Wednesdays post title! Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy at Grace Cathedral via Books Inc. (7:30, $25 tickets at Books Inc.), Terry Pratchett at Cody's on Telegraph (7:30), and Salman Rushdie at the Herbst Theater (8:00, buy tickets here). Thursday: our biggest local purveyors of hip classical music, the Kronos Quartet, kick off the first of two shows to support their new album of Bollywood standards at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The divine Asha Bhosle will be singing, and classical Chinese pipa-ist (that's the new Gothamist site, we know it!) Wu Man will play as well. Friday: You're going to our Webzine kickoff party, right? Right? SFist's hosting Webzine 2005's kickoff party at Cafe Du Nord, from 8-10 p.m.. Everyone's invited, even if you're not going to Webzine itself. Come by, check out our cool DJs, meet your favorite staffer, and see what SFist-themed toys we can scrounge up by then! (Contrary to rumors, we will not have a cardboard picture of Chris Daly for you to take pictures with. We will have Mrs. Chris Daly shirts for sale, though! Well, maybe we'll have them for sale. Hey, can we borrow your car to drive the Mrs. Chris Daly t-shirts over to Cafe Du Nord on Friday night?) Got an event you want to tell us about? Go right ahead!...

Some of our fondest childhood memories are those from our local library's summer reading club, which either makes you think that we are kinda sweet or total f**king nerds. Well, we're obviously not the only ones on staff who associate the warm weather with reading, because this is our biggest and best SFist Reads ever! Some of us reserved our books online, and others of us purchased what we're reading at one of our......

SFist was out for drinks with some colleagues (good luck, Jillian!) when she heard herself start preaching the gospel of the SFPL online reserve system. Now we're sure everyone we work with thinks we're a total dork (if they didn't already). Maybe we should have encouraged everyone to shop their local independent bookstores, instead--does that sound cooler? SFist Matt fell in line and finished Blink. He asks "Did you get to the part about......

SFist has been sick the last few days, and the books we reserved online saved us from boredom and madness. Now that we're out and about again, maybe we'll stop by one of our local independent bookstores to get some books to keep. The always brief Isaac is reading The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith. SFist Rita just finished Disney War, by James Stewart It's really like they took all your bad bosses, put......

SFist picked up some books we reserved online, and had no memory of ever requesting them. Are we getting drunk and reserving books? We'll know it's time to quit drinking when we start getting banned from our local independent bookstores for disorderly conduct. One of the books we really are stumped about requesting is The Bachelorette Party. Did we request this because the author was one of the co-authors of the Legally Blonde and......

SFist loves our online reserve queue from the SF Public library so much, we wish we could have SFPL "friends" like the Netflix Friends list, and share what we're reading with others (which, come to think of it, is kind of the point of this feature). We also like the recommendations we receive at our fine local independent bookstores, and wish that we could buy every book we love for everyone we know. Maybe......

Oh, it's a sad day for SFist. Not to encourage undue speculation, but it seems like we have all found better things to do than read this week. Is it that our online reserve queue from the SF Public library is currently stalled, ot that we've opted instead to buy our reading material from one of our fine local independent bookstores? We can only hope that next week is a better one for us......

Ack. The camera broke. Far be it from the Trimethyldioxypurist to post a coffee shop review without a photo. Time for a bit of a screed. After the discovery of the holy grail of Bay Area coffee last week, it's a good time to sit back and take stock of why we do this. And how we go about it. Is it time for a change in format? After a mere three months? And......

SFist Listens to more music than you can guess. Arcade Fire. Erland Oye, the postal service and more more more....

Why is it that when people do readings, they get that weird This-American-Life tone in their voice? And what is it about the quality of polite clapping at bookreadings that makes it sound so poignant? Contemplate these thoughts as you hear your favorite local authors starting tomorrow and going all next week in San Francisco's local literary festival, Litquake. ...

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