Why do you not go to your public library lit/?

England Actually old news
Its disgraceful that Libraries "cost too much"
really ashamed of it theguardian.com/books/2016/nov/05/authors-join-national-protest-against-library-closures
The we leave the EU and lose our Human Rights
At least I have never be patriotic and kinda hated so much of Englishness

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I do occasionally; sometimes the bums are loud though.

What is so good about America If you can't maintain a public library system? My library in a mid sized English town is where I go for most of my books with no problems

It smells of wet cheese

Because public libraries are shite, practically a hostel for homeless and vagrants.
T. Canadian

They have 2 sections: children and cassette audiobooks. There's a small fiction subsection with airport bricks and nothing else.
Thank god there's a big bookstore in town that has most everything I need.

local library's have shut down near me too so now I have to travel into my nearest city to go the library, which I never bother with. Normally i just by my books cheap second hand on ebay or something

They don't have the books I want and it's not a better environment than my room to read it. It has old chairs and creaky fans and mosquitoes so I'm better of staying at home

all the homeless crack heads and drug dealers hang around the library and its filled with smelly, stupid proles. i have an apt and if that fails because of neighbors, i can always go hiking and read in my secret hiding spots along the trails i know

I do. in fact, the library is the only place i obtain reading materials from
i have not paid sticker price or even anything close to sticker price for a book since like the 8th grade (lord of the rings trilogy box) and i'm 32 years old. every now and then i'll pick one up for a dollar while thrift store spelunking
i'm fully convinced people only buy new or even used books to put them in their homes where guests can see them and assume they read them and use as a conversation piece. this is the only explanation why massively overpopularized series like GOT and HP have so painfully many copies and editions and they keep on selling. people do not even read the books they buy. this includes a very large percentage of the "post your stack" Veeky Forums population

Because my university's library is much better.

>i have guests other than my mother when she makes her weekly visits to see me in person and be assured I'm still not going to neck myself anytime soon

it just opened a week ago and i asked if i can come and study, the only dude who was there was confused and said yes, but they were only opened until 16:00 and i get out of school at 1:30
fuck this country

Because it's shit filled with nothing but self-help books and Christian fiction.

I buy new and used solely because I expect to one day finish my backlog and read whatever it is I got. Outside of that, my collection is better than my local library.

I can confirm the blowjobs.

I work at my public library.

Is it comfy?

Middle class suburban white libraries are the bees knees tbqh

bees knees is true. see they don't call it the dewey system for nothing.

It is, I don't work as a librarian, though. I work at the archives, helping with the preservation of manuscripts and stuff. It's a cool experience working with the papers of some of my favourite authors.

I buy my books. I like to collect them

I don't even think people in my library go there to borrow books anymore. All the people there only use the computers, a good amount are kids just playing games.

i do when I need books. Its downtown, something like 40min by bus. Usually to borrow philosophy books since they are expensive as fuck to buy. Usually don't read it there though, just take the book and get home

only the homeless go to the library

>physical copies
>interacting with people in person

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>other people paying to give me books is a human right
britbong in a nutshell

I like owning and collecting books.

My library is full of homeless people so I go to Barnes and Noble instead to read.

I go there a lot to work done and to find new books. It’s the comfiest place in town.
>old New England colonial building covered in Ivy
>all patrons are quiet and respectful, mostly older white folks
>beautiful artwork, statues, and moldings
>big comfy chairs and tons of little books to go hide in
>all the librarians are helpful old ladies who can help you find anything you need wether it’s for fun or research
>they even have an entire wing for music and film
>open from 8AM-9PM most nights

I’ve been going there since I was a kid and don’t know what I’d do without it. If I ever end up with a lot of money someday I’d like to help them expand it. God bless the public library of Wayland Massachusetts.

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My local library is mainly for immigrants and homeless people. I really don't mind the homeless peeps but the chinks piss me off with their insectoid accent, and the library staff watch over you all the time b/c homeless people doing shady shit so I couldn't even have a beverage while I read.

They dont have the books I want (3rd world country).

>not growing up going to the public library at least once a week with dad where the two of you would go and pick up books to read and discuss together
>not growing up with parents who took you to go attend children’s literary events at the library
>not having a dad that dad would get all excited and drag you along when once per year the library would hold an event where they sold old disintegrating duplicates for pennies on the dollar
>not stopping in to look at weekly artists exhibits and readings by authors at your local library
>not holding a Minuteman Card in your wallet which allows you access to a massive free online database of ebooks and lets you return any book in the system to about 2 dozen libraries throughout New England

plebs, the lot of you

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My local library smells like literal faeces.

I had to use the computer there once, and keyboard was coated in grime.

my local library is filled with niggers...
not just homeless niggers, but NIGGERS WHO WANT TO BE THERE. The worst kind of niggers.

Huh, reading from these comments from 3rd world anons... I think I'm gonna start going to my local library now. Being grateful and all...

Libraries are shit. A controversial opinion but undeniably true. I can't think of a bigger waste of our taxes.

How did Amazon become one of the largest companies in the world selling books when supposedly you can get books for free at the library?

The answer is simple: libraries have an awful selection of books. They stock thousands of terrible books by literally who tier authors and somehow don't bother with the classics. Walk into your average library and I'd be surprised if you can find even half of Veeky Forums's top 100 in stock, or a decent variety of philosophy, or must-read STEM texts, or anything else that actually matters.

So what the fuck is on all those shelves? Genre fiction. Shitty horror, sci-fi, and fantasy fills these buildings. And cookbooks. For some reason we need every country's dumb cuisine represented. Your average leftist argues that libraries are good because education of the public is important. Tell me exactly in which way reading this crap is preparing the next generation or educating anyone?

Second point: libraries are for bums -- homeless people go there to charge their phones and use the bathroom. With the price of books now so low, especially in second hand stores, only the homeless are poor enough to need libraries. Start an drug addiction help programme if you want to help them, don't give them a place to nod off when it's too hot outside.

Lastly, there used to be a good reason for libraries to exist. The law should be accessible to everyone, so a good place to store legal records and legislature was the library. But today with information being so easily accessible via the internet, why are we still printing and taking up with space with books? For octogenarians?

I hate libraries so Goddamn much.

My father swindled the guy running it so my mother says I should wait until he retires, as to not make her dye of shame.

>Amazon
>one of the world's largest companies

Reddit is bigger than Amazon you stupid pseud fuck

Are you literally 12?

It's literally the fourth largest company in the world en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_market_capitalization

Reddit barely scratches the millions you absolute dumbass.

>reddit
>bigger than amazon
oh dear... i don;t think reddit is bigger than amazon by any metric you use.

Sounds like you just have a shit local library.

Reddit gets far more traffic, you fucking brainlet. You know, something that's actually real, not arbitrary share prices based on fuck all.

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Not him but why world you even bring up Reddit when some one is referencing book sales and who gives a fuck about traffic, why would that be relevant? What the fuck are you on about lmao

>They stock thousands of terrible books by literally who tier authors and somehow don't bother with the classics
I'm pretty sure they have a couple of 1984s

>And cookbooks. For some reason we need every country's dumb cuisine represented.
Maybe learning how to cook will benefit NEETs like you who live at McDonalds to buy tendies.

>Your average leftist argues that libraries are good because education of the public is important. Tell me exactly in which way reading this crap is preparing the next generation or educating anyone?

Their are other things libraries can offer other than books. Exempli Gratia: join different clubs, public talks, learn about financial help, private study rooms, resources on finding a job. That's only a few of the services my library offers.

>With the price of books now so low, especially in second hand stores
>price of books
>low
Where do you live? Also, libraries have sales sometimes.

>libraries are for bums
Guess that's true, for city libraries anyway. Or nigger infested counties.

>But today with information being so easily accessible via the internet, why are we still printing and taking up with space with books?

Like I said, libraries can offer more than just books

>McDonalds is the largest fast food restaurant in the world
>but le reddit is bigger website duuurrr!!!!

I think you might actually a mental disorder (I know, redundant, you use reddit) because this has nothing to do with the post.

is Veeky Forums bigger than coca cola because it gets more traffic? troll or imbecile.

What the fuck does McDonalds have to do with anything?

Reddit is literally the 4th biggest website in the world, it's not some tiny fucking company, you absolute moron.

Yeah, you're mentally ill. Let me explain, if you read an article about McDonalds being a large company, do you write to the editor that Reddit gets more traffic? Why are you even bringing it up here? Someone said Amazon is one of the world's largest companies, how is Reddit relevant. Honestly euthanise yourself.

What does Reddit have to do with anything? Please stop posting lmao

Do you think this guy that keeps bringing up reddit is a reddit user or a troll pretending to be a reddit user?

Kill yourself.

The chairs are smelly from all the homeless people and after school special kids with their Cheeto dust fingers

Too many homeless people and too far of a walk but not far enough to justify transit. Also with the internet it hard to bother going to the library, I do however make use of e-books/archives/magazine I can access online for free.

Went to the library last week to kill some time.

>mfw middle aged librarians start yammering nonstop about the weather
>mfw the person sitting next to me starts making calls on the phone
>mfw a contractor comes in and starts drilling into a fucking wall

I hate libraries.

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I almost exclusively read library books. I don't know why but I barely read anything I buy.

The point is to take books out and leave

Not any near me. I only get books from the nearby Waterstones.

My library has a basic recording studio in it with a mac and garageband. My home one is better so I keep ordering audio production books which they often decline to get, even if I use the line 'But you have a recording studio with no books about how to use it'

The last one they got actually which I was happy about.

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I live n a very posh part of England and even here the public library is 90% DVDs and paulo coelo.

Great bookshops though, and lets be honest if you are too poor to buy books you have really fucked your life up somehow.

>I hate libraries so Goddamn much.

Good thing no one agrees. You know you can order all your weeb books and they'll get them for you cheaply you pusch

My town library is comfy as fuck and has great selection with knowledgeable staff. I love it. Pic related.

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>He doesn't cook

wow, libraries are weird in the USA.

my neighborhood isn't affluent enough for the library to be a pleasant place. I don't wish those poorfags ill and I used to be one of them, and they don't really have anywhere else to go, but boy I won't be in the library while they are there

Do you work in a major city/how qualified did you need to be to get that kinda job?

Yeah, I'm in the capital city of my country. I'm an advanced grad student, but I'm kind of an exception in that sense. Most of them have PhDs or are working on their thesis. I got in because I offered myself after a conference. I had some experience working with manuscripts, so that helped, but it was a mix of luck and having no shame in asking for the opportunity.

>not living in a city with a large network of libraries specialising in different kinds of literature
Feel sorry for you anons

>he doesnt just go to the used book store in his town

oh sweetie.....

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My mum did this for me, I should really thank her

can none of y'all go to a public university library? mine has literally every book ive wanted?

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Yes you should.

Honestly, when I learn that a parent doesn’t read to their kids, encourage them to read, or take them to the library on a regular basis I want to punch them in the face.

>he doesn’t go to both
honey...

are we falling through a fucking dumbwaiter or something?

It's a societal standard.

>literally
>literally

I hate millennials.

Im not homeless

If you're under 35 you're a millennial and if you aren't then what are you even doing here gramps

Libraries are for poor people. If you want to read a book just buy it.

I only go to pick up interlibrary loans
I'd love to work in the library but they're never hiring

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You're right, but people in this thread don't seem to understand that public utilities don't come for free. They seem to think that public libraries are ordained by God and delivered by angels as an unmerited act of grace.

Are you content with the sidewalks in your town? Do you ever run into potholes? Are things kept in good conditions? Are public services expedient and the highways efficient? Do things look beautiful and orderly to you?

Because for every single fucking WORTHLESS copy of Twilight and 50 shades of grey that your local library is keeping in-house, you and your dipshit neighbor are paying OUT OF POCKET. For every empty study room that nobody uses, for every edition of "now that's what i call music" on fucking CD, for every DVD of Jack and Jill, that's money out of your pocket, and it's one less pothole fixed, and it's one less historical building restored, and it's one more headache on the highway, and it's one less teacher at a high school.

Do you think your library handles costs and services efficiently? How the fuck would you know? Do you think their salaries are dictated by how well they handle things? Do you think they give a shit to look for bargains? Do you think they don't spend $20,000 on a collection of Astrological Neo-Feminist Theory textbooks because they know the author?

It's not free, you dumb nigger.

>want to go to the library to meet future wife
>know it will just be homeless people and other loses like me

the library smells worse than homeless people. at least when they are outside and the breeze carries away their layered filth

here they blast the heat in the winter and the sick waft cooks in the solid marble, turning the whole 4 storied building into an oven

also on the way in there are at least 4 at the doorway with a toothy smile and a cig tucked in the ear gap

and the dumb bitch whose phone goes off every five minutes proudly declaring nigga nigga nigga nigga niggaa! im 100% nigga!

>tfw I get music CDs for free and download them to pc at home
>get books for free
>can make copies, scan things etc.

Libraries are GOAT getting rid of them would get rid of one of the few public places left in America, the most anti-social hell hole on earth. Meanwhile you autistics complain about budgets, which are irrelevant, if we scratch libraries we will get NOTHING, you idiots really think that you'll get your fill? Hahaha don't be stupid.

i can't focus in public settings

and most people do not have the decency to shut the fuck up

I can't stand library books, even though they usually have a good collection I want to hold and own a book as my own, throw it where I won't and pick it up to read whenever I want. Having a book as my own propriety(especially if it is hardback) is just as much joy as reading it is

>your neighbor has to pay for your anime soundtrack CD-Rom
>the plumber for your house has to pay for your interesting the grateful dead
>your barber struggling to get by with 3 kids has to subsidize your interest in Bukowski

>if we scratch libraries we will get NOTHING
It's literally $3,528,200 just for a town to BUILD a fucking library. Just the building.

This

Public access to physically attainable knowledge is a fundamental pillar of western civilization and paramount to the success of any successful advanced society. Just because some shutin brainlet like you won’t utilize it doesn’t mean that I can’t go there and do research or take advantage of the expertise there to help me with my thesis. Go ahead, get rid of public libraries and watch your literacy rate and the general base knowledge of your entire society plummet. Nowhere did I ever say I cared about wether or not it was free you money-grubbing kike. You are batshit insane, malevolent, or both.

And I’m fine with that. You should be too.