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I collected a big batch of books from my local library today. When I've worked through their collection, I'll have finished a whole tranch of my research. That's about sixty books. The rest I'll have to visit the ANU libraries or the National Library or use ways and means of locating. What's magic about the local library is that they have a substantial number of useful books and that I can read them in my very own lounge chair.

I'm using a bit of a different method to work through them. I need to have read as many as possible by tomorrow (because of Pesach) and then finish the rest just as quickly as I can after that. My new method is Romanian. It has the same rhythm as my favourite Romanian dance, you see. Slow, quick-quick, slow, slow, quick-quick. I've one more quick book to check (the 'quick' ones are ones where I'm doing quite specific checks and don't have to read the whole) and then I hunker down with coffeee and much focus. Also many note-size peices of paper, just in case there are notes that must be take.

If it all becomes too much, I'll put on some music and read in the same rhythm as I'm choosing books.