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Originally Posted by JeremyR
In all honesty, good. Libraries need to stop spending so much money on dvds and cds and video games and computers and spend more on real books.
As far as I am concerned, libraries have no business lending these things, much less buying the amounts they do (my mother used to work for the library, they'd literally buy 100s of the top movies)
People wonder why Blockbuster went under. Sure, some of it was movies not costing $100 any more to buy, and competition from Netflix and Red Box. But libraries are a big factor too - why pay anything when you can get the movie for free?
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So spending more money on books, not because they're buying more books, but because the same books cost more, is a good thing in your book?
Anything that reduces spending on things you disapprove of is a good thing, I guess, even at the cost of basic literacy.
Does the phrase, 'throwing out the baby with the bathwater' mean anything to you?
How about 'cutting off your nose to spite your face'?
Libraries are depositories of *culture*, not just literacy. Music, film and art should also be readily available to the public at large. It benefits everyone - but then the idea that what's good for corporations is the be-all and end-all has been around for awhile.