Everybody knows it is so: Reading is the path to better education, better health and well-being and better entertainment. And a library book, returned on time, is pretty cheap entertainment.

Don’t know what to read? Well, here’s a great starting point. The City of Fort Worth website has pages dedicated to the Public Library system, including a list of the top 40 books checked out each month. If you don’t know what to read, start with what was popular last month! It’s been returned by now and the book fans are on to the next round of fresh releases, so you’ll have the prior month’s list all to yourself. (I would skip the Encyclopedia Britannica – just a suggestion.)

Don’t like books that much? Consider all the other resources you can find at the library – audio books, newspapers, events. They’re showing A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 black & white hit Beatles film, on Sunday, January 6, at 2pm at the Central Library location – part of the First Sunday Film Club. Ringling Bros. clowns were here last spring for a kids' reading event. Who knows what can happen next?
If you’re on a budget, every day of the week the periodicals room can save you a lot of money if you stop buying magazines at the grocery checkout stand – read them for free here instead. Free.

Don’t know where your local neighborhood library is? The map will show the Fort Worth library location addresses and contact info. BTW, there's a free wireless hotspot at the Central Library location [where: 500 West 3rd Street, Forth Worth, TX 76102], pass it on.

And, if for no other reason, librarians are notoriously civil people – another GREAT reason to hang out at the library once in a while. It could rub off.