I grew up in Ventura, maybe a mile from this library and I went there pretty often as a kid. It has been in danger of shutting down and has had fewer open hour

I grew up in Ventura, maybe a mile from this library and I went there pretty often as a kid. It has been in danger of shutting down and has had fewer open hours for probably over a decade now - it's really pretty sad. I agree that libraries are incredibly important, but it's disheartening that Mr. Bradbury dislikes colleges, universities and the internet so much, which have likely done so much more to educate people on the whole recently than the traditional local library system. In fact, the largest use of our local library here in the SF Bay area that I see now is the computer room. Free access to the internet for people who can't afford a computer or don't have a quiet place to use one is really enabling. That is in general far more useful to people than the book selections, which have been overshadowed by Borders and Barnes and Nobles, where you can often find a larger and more up to date selection and can sit and read them as well. Mr. Bradbury says: “They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? ‘To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.’ That's really sad. Why fight for a few hundred people to have access to books like yours for free, but turn down the chance for millions to be able to read it? How many more people can have access to "Fahrenheit 451" with a local shared $200 computer and a free version on the internet as opposed to paying for printing out a copy and shipping them to public libraries? Multiply that by every important book in the world and the costs of the first scenario hardly change and the costs of the second rise almost linearly. I hope my old library survives, but I really hope that his views do not.