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Originally Posted by JeremyR
The trouble is, at least where I live, libraries have long ago stopped focusing on books, but renting movies, providing internet access (providing computers, not just a hotspot), renting video games and whatnot.
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Libraries in the UK have gone the same way, I think it's just to get people through the doors in the same sort of numbers that they used to before the internet. If they just loaned books, I don't think many people would bother with them any more. Once you've paid for parking or a bus ride to the library you've pretty much spent the cost of a second hand book from Ebay anyway.