I would imagine if I owned a book store, I would be thanking the Lord daily that it is still open. Book stores is pretty much 20th century. They need to close libraries too. Not needed anymore. Waste of tax payers money.
Public libraries ARE needed-———and they are VERY busy places.
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I was known to all the employees at the downtown Chandler library as one of the "eclectics", those patrons who checked out books on a variety of subjects. I would run across something that piqued my interest and check out books on it. I was there at least twice a week, sometimes more, stopping on the way home from work or taking my daughters with me on the weekends, checking out armfuls of non-fiction books.
Now I use the Internet for acquiring knowledge -- the library is for borrowing fiction. And when I go there I see almost no one among the aisles of books. Around the periphery sit college-aged, Asians mostly, availing themselves of the free wifi. The magazine section has a few people sitting in the comfortable chairs, reading newspapers. and the rows of Internet-connected computers are filled with blacks and Hispanics, checking out their social media.
The children's area upstairs is always full of kids, though. At least for that.
Bite your tongue, I use my Public Library at least once a week if not more.
I guess I could look up esoteric information on google or wikipedia, if I trusted 1/10th of the information they put out, WHICH I DON’T.
Any thing on google or wikipedia can be edited by anybody with a keyboard.
The printed word, in BOOKS is the only thing that lifted Humanity out of the dark ages.
It’s not that hard to imagine a new dark ages when the power grid goes down.
Thanks, Hillary.
I assume you're being facetious. I don't know what I would do without libraries. I have about 15 library cards and there's a permanent pile of checked-out books on my living room bookshelf.