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Originally Posted by DNSB
I suspect the name comes from an era when the majority of libraries were circulation/subscription libraries. Public libraries, by contrast, did not have paid membership with annual/quarterly dues -- they were free libraries. Perhaps the founders of the FLP back in the 1890s did not take into consideration the Internet. Shortsighted of them! 
Since I don't pay any taxes in Philadelphia, $50 per year for the number of ebooks available is a bargain which I consider as a donation to the library. Their ebook collection is not quite up to the number available from the $9.99 per month Kindle Unlimited but a good chunk are from traditional publishers who seem to regard KU as being one step below cannibalism.
" Madam, a circulating library in town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge! It blossoms through the year! And depend on it … they who are so fond of handing the leaves, will long for the fruit at last." Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals |
lucky my local library is also using overdrive and some of the popular books have to put to on hold.
it might have the latest books but good enough for me.
furthermore it is free.