There’s a library 5 minute walk from me. They have ps5 games on release day. I haven’t bought a game in years.
That’s insanely amazing!
I go through the list and place a hold on a bunch of games and I will get a text every few weeks for a new one. You keep em from 2-3 weeks depending on the game. Last game I played was Star Wars outlaws, a game i would never pay for but for free why not
I love my local library. I just checked out a bunch of records that I’ve never heard on vinyl, and since my home Internet is currently shut off, I’ve been checking out a mobile hotspot once a week and plugging it straight into my router
free mobile hotspot?! that is awesome
Respect libraries
Meanwhile authors, who you might imagine might be most upset at their books being “given away” by libraries, actually love libraries and are delighted to hear stories of people checking their books out.
Libraries are far from free
They are free in the same sense as anything else that is free in a shared universe with finite available resources
I’d quibble that any organization that acts to spread knowledge qualifies as free in the sense of expanding freedom of choice, and argue thus that if their operational costs as a public nonprofit have to be expressed as an at-cost service (or reasonably priced and used to subside their other related operations) - that’s still a meaningful free in multiple ways.
But on a more basic level - yeah, it is shameful that libraries (broadly speaking) often have to operate like they’re badly managed businesses. But that arguably in most cases is not the fault of the library itself but on society (late stage capitalism, billionaires and the other usual suspects).
Tl;dr: You’re not wrong, but also is that really the hill you wanna plant your flag in?
