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brecklundin · 01-20-2008, 11:40 PM

I just wonder how the decline of the US Library System has influenced how people read. I know our local small twon library has maybe 10% of the books they had when i was growing up. I began using the library when I was about 10/11 years old or so...but I read more "grown up" books, mostly SciFi and non-fiction.

I pretty much never visited the kids section simply because I found the topics and writing trivial and, well, insulting. Even as a kid. I imagine if those were the books I was pointed to then I would not be as much of a reader as I am today.

01-20-2008, 11:40 PM	#10
brecklundin Banned Posts: 1,906 Karma: 15348 Join Date: Jun 2007 Device: mine	I just wonder how the decline of the US Library System has influenced how people read. I know our local small twon library has maybe 10% of the books they had when i was growing up. I began using the library when I was about 10/11 years old or so...but I read more "grown up" books, mostly SciFi and non-fiction. I pretty much never visited the kids section simply because I found the topics and writing trivial and, well, insulting. Even as a kid. I imagine if those were the books I was pointed to then I would not be as much of a reader as I am today.