I often see the question, what do people do on long road trips to avoid too much screen time for kids? First, a disclaimer. I have no personal druthers about screentime one way or the other. I think whatever works best for each family works best. We, missed the screentime issue by simple circumstance. When the kids came, we were poor grad students; too poor to afford screens. Consequently, we’ve just never had them. So, what do we do on road trips without screens? One of the answers is libraries! (Actually an article in the New York Times a few days back, commenting on the rising popularity of libraries is what made me think of all this.) On our latest cross-country road trip, our yearly two-week camping trip, we stopped at about a library a day. They were delightful! We go to read a little. We used their free WiFi to keep up with communications as we went. The kids read, they played with toys, they m...