Post #2022677

2026-05-01 18:56 UTC

A library card costs...what? Five bucks? Ten? Maybe? And in return you can get your hands on just about any book you can think of. Not to mention music, e-books and movies. FREE. Hell, with sites like [Kanopy](https://kanopy.com/), you don't even need to pay for Netflix anymore. Libraries offer all sorts of classes and programs, too. Libraries are the shit, and you should be supporting yours more.

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@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2026-05-01 19:35

I use my library all the time, literally daily. It's not about that, it's about how great the book fair was.

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@Nima@leminal.space 2026-05-01 22:22

this isn't about that. it was the excitement of the book fair. it meant you were going to get some cool books and maybe some of those neat science rocks and minerals books that came with actual minerals and stuff. or bug collecting books with bug catching apparati attached. was so cool. it wasn't about overtaking libraries. it was to get kids excited about reading. and it *worked*. it was a nice thing to be excited for.

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@DakRalter@thelemmy.club 2026-05-02 09:25

You have to pay for library cards where you are?

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@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2026-05-01 20:04

Library card costs me nothing. My tax dollars pay for the local library. It has inter-library loan with lots of places. Local colleges/universities will also let you (at a minimum) use books and tools at the library, and usually give you a card too. My media collection is mostly gathered from my local library. The there's things like Kanopy that you mentioned. There's a few other similar systems.

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