Yes
📚 📖 🫲😃 = 😎 👍 🪙
and even if they don’t know how to read, they could always pretend.
They have audiobooks too
And CDs and games and movies and services for poor people
And tools and cookware and electronics and community events!
Also some of them close to me allow you to rent/lend actual telescopes with a library card!
Woah… If you’re comfortable sharing it, what state is that?
They also rent board games. It great for mystery games like Unlock that you can only play once or twice.
Y’all should all
All y’all’s.
That’s grammatically correct in the neck of the woods I grew up.
Nice profil picture!
The services like renting power tools is amazing, or free tickets to museums and stuff.
I loved the Last Week Tonight segment about it, and not just the taxidermy parts 😁
Hadn’t heard of that, thanks, I’ll check it out
Same thing for surveys and stuff at museums and similar places. Help them get more funding with them, even if you don’t have time to write something sincere. Numbers say a lot.
I use my library card to access newspapers.
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Tell us you don’t read books.
Your comment is based on a causal fallacy. Don’t be a prick.
Something tells me it’s you who doesn’t read enough. Checkout some words whose pronunciation is different from the spelling. You’d be surprised to know why that is. Or why some words have changed their spellings (from colour to color or metre to meter).
“Bigot” is not a good look on you.
A new public library place recently opened very near to where I live. I’ve nothing to say, am just a bit comforted that when the world is crashing and burning, at least I can be happy about this.
Also some libraries provide 3D printers which is really cool
edit: I didn’t notice how many people were commenting about 3D printers
Libraries around here also have free passes to museums among other things.
This is a national post, without any science
Hoopla works with Android TV to provide Movies and TV shows for free! (*works on many devices)
The Los Angeles Public Library offers:
- Free Museums tickets
- Free Zoo tickets (LA city residence only)
- Free state park passes
- You can borrow laptop, tablet, or even portable a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Free education software (Mango and Linkedin Learning)
- Free Comics, Music, Magazines, and Movies
- Free and cheap 3D printing
Obviously not every library offers all this, but check in with your local branch, and you might be pleasantly surprised.
And also, they have toilets.
Starbucks, billions in revenue:
We cAn nO loNGer be America’s bathroom
Libraries, scrimping pennies:
Piss with us. We’re family.
I have a library card. But never used it bc I pirate all of my books. But I will still be keeping it.
I also find most of my books through unconventional sources but still use my library card for books through apps like hoopla and libby, both for the convenience of the mobile format and to keep my ratios in line.
I’m in Germany we have Onleihe and it’s shit thats why I pirate.
They provide services to ALL people. So tired of reading that only the poor use the library. My kids are always begging to be taken there to get books and do activities. We just used the color printer/copier at ours the other day and the first 3 copies were free. Libraries are an amazing community resource for EVERYONE.
The three big branches around me have well stocked maker spaces. I see young classes in there all the time.
Some have seed selections for gardeners. Many assist with tax preparation. I’ve heard of a few who lend music equipment (think mixers, PAs, synths) for musicians who can’t justify going all in getting their own gear.
Libraries are fucking rad.
The post clearly says that they also provide services to poor people and just adds it at the very end. I get that you are primed to reading this wrong but in this case it actually isn’t wrong…
