Having Fun Isn't Hard When You've Got A Library Card

Hey, MTSU students, there's a special place where you don't have to pay for books, where Twain, Austen, Hemingway, Wharton, and, yes, even Rowling wait in anticipation on the shelves.

MTSU students can now check out more books from the Walker Library! Undergraduates can check out up to 20 books, and graduates 50.

Now, this may not be all too appealing since not every textbook required for class can be found in this literary utopia. But everyone's brain needs a break from Freudian theories and quadratic equations now and then, right?

Still not buying the "reading for fun" thing, and would rather be on social networking sites for recreation than exercising your eyeballs more than necessary? Well, there are - believe it or not - spots like LibraryThing and Goodreads where you can build your online library.

LibraryThing is somewhat limited, but Goodreads allows you to create bookshelves. You can keep track of what you've read, are currently reading, and want to read. What's more, you can track your reading progress by page numbers.

So, if you want to take a break from Aristotle and "Dancing with the Stars," why not spend your cerebral downtime with Melville and the gang?

Or, you can just pretend to be a literati and add a bunch of books just to spite any of the top readers.