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Exactly. Enabling poor people to buy books is a far greater social good than having somewhere comfortable for hipsters to sit with their laptops and middle clas
by gadders 4y ago
Exactly. Enabling poor people to buy books is a far greater social good than having somewhere comfortable for hipsters to sit with their laptops and middle class mums to push their three wheeled buggies round.
- lupire 4y agoWhy? If you are poor you probably also have less real estate and so purchasing a non-trivial quantity of books is less convenient than borrowing. Also not sure why you blast that sexism around.
- gadders 4y agoHaha. "It doesn't matter if we make buying books expensive because poor people can't afford shelf-space." Nice.
- PinguTS 4y agoActually, you don't need to own a book to read it. We in Germany have a great concept for this, its called: Library, You can go to your local community library and decide to either read the book there or to take it home and read it where ever you like. The rent for the first 2 weeks or sometimes the first 4 weeks is free of charge. These libraries these days even not only have books to rent out. They have online-books, games (like those physical games to interact physically with other people you like), and other medias. Even the membership in those community libraries is mostly free of charge, with a few exceptions.
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- gadders 4y agoSee: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33149867 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33149867