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I am so thrilled about this year's Nobel peace prize. The Grameen Bank is such a brilliantly simple and simply brilliant concept, and it's helped so many people. I hope we don't see the same sort of grouching as we did when Wangari Maathai won two years ago. I'm interested and pleased that the committee seems try and take a broad approach to the concept of "peace" -- the prize doesn't just go to people who try and end conflicts, but sometimes it goes to people who try to address the roots of conflict in the first place.

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I guess I can sort of see the point of this for people who aren't served by the largest public library system in Canada (and the one with the second highest circulation in the world, after Hong Kong).

But my first thought on reading the phrase "Like Netflix, but for books" was "You mean like a library, but not free?"

OK, raithen, I'm leaving. :P