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Originally Posted by pietrocrazy
That's really quite interesting. Thank you for pointing it out!
I lived in France for a little while, and I remember being shocked that I had to pay for access to the public library. It was a measly 9 euros a year, but it had never even occurred to me before that people would pay to go to the library. It just goes to show you how ingrained libraries are in our culture.
Side note: I'm from Washington D.C., and I remember being similarly shocked the first time I went to New York and had to pay to go in a museum! Sadly, though, the era of free entry into the Smithsonian may soon be behind us  |
I didn't realize that the system in France has a fee. Growing up in the states I couldn't get a library card because we lived outside the city limits.
We could have paid the library directly, but it would have been too expensive. I was so jealous of all my friends who could borrow from the library! (I could still go to the library, though, thankfully. I would have been devastated if I couldn't go at all.)