Thread: [Poll] As a child... were you?
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Old 11-11-2014, 06:55 PM   #72
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Yes. After switching to English reading in 1998, I've not visited a library in the Netherlands, but I imagine it is still the same.

edit: I've looked it up for you. See the attachment. It got worse: now you don't only pay for borrowing the books, you'll need to have a subscription as well, costing at least €22.

Basically, there are three subscriptions: Basic, Comfort and Royal. With a higher subscription, you'll be able to loan more, for a longer time, and/or pay less (or sometimes nothing).
Wow... interesting. I would have expected the Netherlands to be much more 'free' than that. I can understand charging for music and movies (assuming they're not educational), but to charge for checking out books is shocking to me, even if only 15 euro cents. At least the annual fee is waived for children! What's the difference between the three levels? The number of books you can check out? How long? The collections you can use?

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