Making use of the library

I have been checking out a lot of books from the Duke library lately; I wanted to find a few to read for pleasure because that's much cheaper than just going out and buying something but all but 2 of the books I have currently checked out (16!) are actually for my research. Boy, nothing keeps me on the edge of my seat like Structure-performance relationships in surfactants, Szycher's Handbook of Polyurethanes, and Emulsion and emulsion stability. In all seriousness though, these books have been extremely helpful in figuring out what's going on with my project when I've hit a few walls. I also have a book I checked out for pleasure reading called Castle but I've had it for two weeks and I just can't get into it so I'm just going to take it back. That's a bummer because I don't really like to start things and not finish them but I also don't like wasting my time, and reading that book is a waste of my time. It's unusual for me to be relying so heavily on books again because in undergrad and most of grad school so far I've relied on Google and then scientific journals. But I remember spending a lot of time at the library in elementary and middle school so it's nice to get back to my roots :-P