Technically, it's not free, but you've already paid for it directly if you own property or indirectly through rent (as property tax factors into rental prices.)

Technically, it's not free, but you've already paid for it directly if you own property or indirectly through rent (as property tax factors into rental prices.) We pay $120 a year to our public library. We also pay another $100-200 a year in fines, program fees and special requests. This still comes out to well less than $5/book read.