Ooh! Jon Udell has a bookmarklet builder that lets you look up a book at your local public library with one click while viewing its Amazon.com detail page. Try before you buy! Search for books using Amazon's database instead of your library's lousy WebPac! Check out books recommended by bloggers with two and a half clicks! I jump to SPL's site from Amazon pages all the time, and it never occurred to me to eliminate the six awkward steps it usually takes with a bookmarklet.

Via Merlin Mann's 43 Folders, which Anil credits for the recent rush of blogolarity (coin!) for the stress-management book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. Going from the front page alone, Merlin writes about Mac OS X productivity apps, GTD, and using technology for productitivy and life management. (Here's Merlin's response to Anil's article.) 43 Folders easily earns a spot on my regular reading list.

Speaking of libraries and (guh ick) iPac, my wife would like me to remind everyone that prefers their library's telnet interface to continue to use it, lest it be taken down. Telnet spl.lib.wa.us for a cleaner, faster Seattle Public Library research experience. (You have to enter your library account number every time you place a hold, and it's still faster.) Now that pretty much every SPL branch has thrown out their old terminals in favor of Windows machines, I keep thinking the fact that the telnet interface is still up is merely an oversight.