Nora's laptop does seem to conveniently come and go, doesn't it? I suspect it's supposed to be that the old computer is for home, the laptop is for the coffee shop (where she gets free wi-fi) and the library computer is for classwork.
The trouble, of course, is that pretty much every library I've been in has offered free wi-fi. And unless she didn't have her research material with her (I don't recall it being mentioned either way), there's no reason why she couldn't have written that paper at home or wherever else she wanted, saved it to a USB stick (or e-mailed it to herself, if she really didn't have one of those), and take two seconds to print it out.
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Date: 2014-01-08 10:43 pm (UTC)The trouble, of course, is that pretty much every library I've been in has offered free wi-fi. And unless she didn't have her research material with her (I don't recall it being mentioned either way), there's no reason why she couldn't have written that paper at home or wherever else she wanted, saved it to a USB stick (or e-mailed it to herself, if she really didn't have one of those), and take two seconds to print it out.