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Right. I'm just trying to see where Valentine's Day is getting your goat. Your implication is that it causes the library to load up on romance novels, yet the evidence seems to imply that one has little to do with the other (aside from a library highlighting romances in February in the same way they might highlight scary stories in October).
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Valentines Day is causing the libraries to load up on romance. I've seen this at more than one library.
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They can if you want access to a library from out of your immediate area or country. Some libraries offer it as an option for folks they wouldn't normally service.
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When you are in a small town with a population of 1,800 compared to a city with a population of 2,000,000, your total funding is not going to be the same though the people in the small town may actually be paying more per capita in library taxes.
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For some strange reason Feb is the month that ALL the Black History & Romance Books go on Sale.... Yet to see any Saint Valentine's Day Massacre books on sale or heaven forbid books on St Valentine!
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