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Originally Posted by microbet
I get almost all my books from the library. They have a big selection and if something isn't at my local branch, they deliver it there. They have e-books and audio books too. It's free (cheap anyway if count the portion of my taxes), my house isn't even more crowded with books, and as Benjamin Franklin said, "**** Amazon".
Libraries are the last remaining refuge from commodification of like all public spaces and things. I would have predicted the right wing would have already targeted them for elimination or privatization ala public transportation and schools, but it does serve as the place right-wingers will gleefully point to as Boot Strap Central: the only place in the world poors can find heat, something to do, a place to make themselves literate in the face of neglected public schools, a place for poors to train themselves for their next job, whatever. Without the library, I think we'd be down to literal shrugging.