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Originally Posted by koland
Sadly, not at any of the three libraries I belong to and ICK! on borrowing a cookbook, these days.
Well, most print books, for that matter. Smoke smell, food (one hopes) stains, etc.
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It's been quite a few months now since I heard the report, but there is (or at least was then) a move on to enable libraries to do interlibrary loans of
digital books. That day can't come too soon for me.
I haven't been in many public libraries lately but my own, but the books at my library have the same issues that you mentioned. I thought that it was just because our library system is so way underfunded. Maybe the problem of books being in such poor condition is much more extensive . . . .