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This depends on your library system. I am under a provincial library system which is woefully underfunded. We get “flavours of the month” services that are like
by xattt 5y ago
This depends on your library system. I am under a provincial library system which is woefully underfunded. We get “flavours of the month” services that are likely trial versions offered to libraries before lock-in. Some of the choices over the years were Freegal Music, Ancestry.com and some sort of language training thing.
Our Overdrive tier is probably the cheapest and I occasionally use my parents’ library card for expanded Overdrive access, who live in a place with a much better funded library system.
- devilbunny 5y agoFully agree. My local library system is badly funded (as in, they let a building full of books rot rather than simply move them, and the main library has been closed for several years due to roof and sewage leaks) and we have no easy option to pay for a good one.
- datavirtue 5y agoWe should have funded libraries in the infrastructure bill. A rounding error would have been enough to supercharge them.
- voakbasda 5y agoGovernments have realized that an uneducated populace is easier to control. Or maybe that is too cynical a view for HN?