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I'm sad even if Internet replaces some aspects of a library. I'm still wondering what replaces the lending process on Internet? Some years ago, I was very happy
by adulau 15y ago
I'm sad even if Internet replaces some aspects of a library. I'm still wondering what replaces the lending process on Internet? Some years ago, I was very happy to go to a library looking for a specific book and finding a bookshelf containing the related books on a same topic. I'm leaving the library with no one but four books on the topic I was looking for. That was just for the price of the yearly subscription.
On Internet, you cannot go to an official library and have access to all the books and download what you want for a yearly subscription of 5-7 EUR (that was the price in the 80-90 nineties in Europe). The only similar service is with the "Library Genesis" but it's not really considered to be an official library... I'm sad because it excludes some future innovator to access knowledge easy and cheaply.
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- b0rsuk 15y agoThe internet is the biggest library and the biggest junkyard. I like it that way. It has its charms. There's another thing to like about libraries: information is nicely organized, consistently of rather high quality (no lolcats). Librarians are educated people, you go to an university (for example) to become one. When you go to a library, you know you won't find much crap. It's the human-organized information at its finest.