[Rodebrecht]

Where the reference desk was, they are building a $50,000 coffee shop that will include a $12,000 cappuccino machine.

We're talking about a school for preteens and teens, right?

[MrEdd]

From families with way more money than most folks.

These kids wont be be reading on the library’s Kindle’s for the most part. Their families will buy them high end Irex readers and tablet PCs. Given equipment of that quality this is a good move. Every student could borrow an assigned book at the same time.