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Originally Posted by retiredbiker
In today's world, actual access to any locally banned book is pretty trivial with Amazon, if you have money.
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Amazon China banned many books before they mostly closed in China, probably including most of the books about China that I might have wanted to read.
Here is an example of a book found in public libraries but banned from the U.S. Amazon, Amazon.com:
https://search.overdrive.com/media/3...y-became-sally
(I have not read the book, and Amazon may have reasons for banning it that I would find reasonable -- except that I find book banning, whether by governments, or large booksellers, totally unacceptable.)
I don't know what the future holds, but today's American public libraries buy and hold books from a wide variety of POV's -- often wider than Amazon.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
So, despite the hyperbolic headlines, this library is not in imminent danger of closing.
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I hope you are correct. A lot of U.S. public libraries are owned by the government, and a lot are fully independent despite accepting funds from, among other parties, the local government. I couldn't find on the Patmos Library web site how their board members are choosen, although they obviously are trying to stay open.