You're using an outlier library if it has 3-D printers. The average library is more a net cafe with a small amount of books and no "cafe" part. Essentially it's

You're using an outlier library if it has 3-D printers. The average library is more a net cafe with a small amount of books and no "cafe" part. Essentially it's a worse bookstore with worse hours, but free content. My local library is in a nice building downtown, but it's real amount of books is far less than the books-a-million 20 minutes away, and most of the floor space is dominated by banks of computers. When libraries changed focus from providing access to computers, they kind of lost their mission, because computers are now dirt cheap, yet books are more expensive overall.