Peter Sagal

And did you have a favorite book when you were a kid?

Well, how old were you when you got your first book tattooed?

And what was the first book you had tattooed?

Wow, wow.

And when you walked into the tattoo parlor at the age of 24 and you said, I would like this library card with Arthur the Aardvark, Arthur Reed, did the guy just look at you and say, oh, what a cliche?

Whatever works.

You spent so much time at your hometown library, eventually you went back and got a job there, and you eventually became head librarian, right?

I did, yes.

Wow, and once you acquired that immense power, what is the first thing you did with it?

We have covered on this show the fact that many libraries report that very weird things show up in books being returned that have been used as bookmarks.

Has this happened to you?

Have you pulled out odd things out of books?

People are reading a book and they have to close the book, so they grab what is near to hand and put it in the book as a bookmark.

Yeah.

Yeah, I understand.

Let's say you have a little kid, however old, who doesn't like to read.

Says they don't, anyway.

Do you have a magic book that you have in your pocket, metaphorically speaking, to whip out and convert that kid into a reader?

The child or the adult?

I was thinking of the adult.