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I think it would be fairer on everyone to charge fees to people who make heavy use of the services, such as adults who borrow hundreds of fiction books per year.
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The taxpayers would storm the libraries with torches and pitchforks if this happened. I am already paying $100-$130 per year in property tax directly to the county library system. ($100 per $100,000 value home) The screeching would be heard worldwide if additional fees were charged to the borrowers.
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Who needs to read hundreds of fiction books per year? If the library charged those heavy users fees then they would have more resources to help those who really need it.
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Seriously? On the same logic, who
needs to read hundreds of non-fiction books per year?
Who will do the deciding, in this world, of what books are needful and what books are not, therefore a fee is demanded to read them? Anyone actively in school can read for free, but the senior citizen who is housebound must pay a fee if they want to borrow the latest Nora Roberts?
Perhaps the fees could be based on the politics of the author? Or maybe the color of their skin, or eyes.