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Originally Posted by Katsunami
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).
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Prices here are a bit different. Also three subscription levels (small (max 10 items), medium (max 25 items) and large (max 50 items)).
Small is €34, medium €45 and large €60. And you pay €0,20 per book for the small subscription and nothing for the medium and large. The time you can borrow a book is the big difference between medium and large (3 weeks vs 6 weeks)
And I stopped going to the library for the same reason as you. I started reading in English. And while the library I went to at that time had a great selection (it was a very large library, with an awesome selection), once I moved to a smaller town (non-university), I stopped going (which was around 1999). The selection was just not there and the price too high for what they offered. And the fact that I just couldn't go to the library anymore because when I was free, it was closed...