Libraries are fantastic at lending me physical books. Really, really good at it. I've been an avid consumer of books on my various Sony readers (I prefer them

Libraries are fantastic at lending me physical books. Really, really good at it. I've been an avid consumer of books on my various Sony readers (I prefer them to kindles and other brands) for most of the last decade, but as I type I have nine physical books from the library within a few feet of me. They charge me fifty pence to fetch it for me if they have to fetch it from some other county library, and two and a half pounds if they have to fetch it from anywhere in the UK and Ireland. I have six or seven books on order at the moment from the library, and they've got two waiting for me (one of which came from the county store, fifty pence, and one of which came from a university somewhere, two pounds and fifty pence). Unbeatable value for books I want to read but don't want to buy. Sometimes I even forgo piracy for the extra convenience of having it in physical format; novels that I read cover to cover sequentially are more convenient on the Sony, but textbooks, reference manuals and technical guides are so much more useful as paper. I completed a part-time degree last year and the library was an absolute viking at getting me maths textbooks and histories from all over. Libraries can (still) lend me books at fantastic prices.