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Originally Posted by hleo12
And this is a very western-centric way of thinking.
I would love for us to have a public library like the US and some European countries. But I don't ever see that happening. It's just not a priority of our government.
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I agree with the sentiment. It is far from unusual for posters here to forget that there are countries outside the United States represented here, and snide sweeping put downs like the one you quoted are representative of that mindset.
I'm not in the US or Europe either, and while the library system where I live is excellent for physical books, it's nowhere as useful for ebooks. That's why I've spent hundreds of US dollars in the last 3-4 years buying from Kobo, because borrowing ebooks is not feasible for me.