Good writing spots around Davis Sq?

[redheadedmuse.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for a few places to get away from home and do some writing. Top requirements would be a quiet atmosphere, a place to sit for a few hours at a stretch and free wireless. True Grounds has been my default for awhile, but I'd like to add a few to my list, especially if they have later hours.

Where do y'all like to sit/think/write?

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[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

The Somerville Library on College Ave. Don't know the hours offhand.

I prefer noise and ruckus so usually go to Diesel.

[ron_newman]

Starbucks doesn't have free wi-fi, though.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

If you register a Starbucks card and use it once in a while, your wifi is free. Allegedly it's limited to 2 hrs/day but I've never seen it get cut off. (And I understand that registering and using a Starbucks card may not be acceptable to some DSLJ readers.)

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

when i'm writing, i often prefer no wifi :)

[whaler.livejournal.com]

haha yeah the internet is the worst distraction!

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

for me, the work/writing become the (very occasional) distraction from my web-noodling

[justjess.livejournal.com]

I try to limit surfing-while-writing to research for whatever it is I'm working on, but... yeah. Internet bad.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

[ron_newman]

Somerville Library West Branch hours here.

This won't matter right now, but when the weather gets warm you need to know that this library branch is not air-conditioned.

The Cambridge Public Library's O'Neill Branch is a short walk from Davis Square, on Rindge Avenue, and they say they have free wi-fi.

[nonnihil.livejournal.com]

No wifi at the West branch, last I checked. But the Somerville Main Library is just a three-minute bus ride away, has better hours, less creaky floors, and all the wifi you can eat.

[ron_newman]

Is the WestBranch library's page wrong? It says they have wi-fi.

[nonnihil.livejournal.com]

No sign of it yesterday evening, but that may have been incidental technical difficulties or something.

[blunderblunder.livejournal.com]

It was fine a couple of weeks ago :P

[hissilliness.livejournal.com]

Orleans, when it's quiet.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

definitely agree

[ukelele.livejournal.com]

Worth noting that True Grounds will be limiting its wifi as of Feb. 1 (one hour free with purchase of coffee/food, after that you need to pay). Of course I still <3 them.

The public libraries in general have free wifi; if you don't mind going a bit farther afield, Cambridge/Arlington/Lexington main libraries are just much nicer spaces.

I used to do 1369 in Inman a lot when I lived in Union, and if I still lived in Union I'd be doing Sherman and Bloc 11 a lot, but I don't know the wireless situation at 1369 and Sherman (at Bloc 11 it's the same as the Diesel, so not, alas, free).

[offroadpath.livejournal.com]

Another vote for the Arlington library. I wrote a good chunk of my thesis in the reading room there.

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

I think Sherman's wi-fi is free with purchase, but I don't remember if they had a time limit or not.

[smoterh.livejournal.com]

Block 11 is a great place to work. Much nicer than any other coffee shop in davis and I believe they have free wifi.

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[hoppzor.livejournal.com]

the wifi is most definitely not free. see above: they're run by diesel folks, and the 'net costs the same.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

My living room, particularly when my spousalbeast needs a writing partner to help him stay on task. Oh, wait. That's most of the time. :)

[justjess.livejournal.com]

Sounds almost like a normal weekend at my place!

[entrope.livejournal.com]

Blue Shirt Cafe - lots of outlets, free wifi with a $5 purchase, not too loud, not too silent.

Teele Square Cafe

[shava23.livejournal.com]

If you just pop out Holland Street, the Teele Square Cafe, right smack in the middle of Teele Square (I bet you guessed that) has free wi-fi and great food, wonderful people, and it's just nice. But now you'll all descend on it... *pout* No really, send them business, I want them to stay there!

[desired-writer.livejournal.com]

Au Bon Pain in Davis Square (right next to the T) has free wi-fi... 6 hour limit. I have gone there several days in a row without buying anything, no one really cares and there are plenty of outlets near the tables to the right of the food area towards the back.