I think the premise is incorrect. Not everyone has library access. People who travel all the time probably don't. And what about people like me? I am anglophone but living in a non-anglophone country with limited access to books in English. I do read French but I am culturally English and want to read English books.
And in any case libraries would only be a genuine equaliser if one could get any book at all from them, and one can't.
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