I use mine for interlibrary loans. The library space itself isn't the coziest, and their regular collection development policies aren't really conducive to me finding a lot to read, but as long as I can use ILL at no charge I'm grateful.
It's always hard to find a seat alone, but I guess that's what it has come to with the vagrants that frequent it.
If I go, it is just and in and out affair.
I don't spend any time in it but I go there to borrow something every couple of months. I also use my membership to access ebooks and audiobooks on Hoopla quite often.
I use my city's library for books I don't want to buy (and I'm trying to buy less books so using public library more). I also balled out and got and registered for an extension school class at a big 10 university in my city which grandfathers me into borrowing privileges at their library for scholarly needs that the public library can't fulfill. Libraries are goated IMO. I also hit audiobooks through the public library when I go the gym. It's a more limited selection so I just pick random shit that sounds interesting. Did all volumes of Knausgaard's my struggle this way. Starting Eichmann in Jerusalem now on audiobook via public library.
lmao seethe harder b***h. How many books did you read last year? 12? Including game of thrones and an LOTR re-read? The audiobooks are supplemental. I read the Joyce corpus annually. My pinky finger is more well-read than your entire lineage. Good day sir. I said good day!
>How many books did you read last year? 12?
Over 50. Seethe more. Congrats on reading Joyce annually. I also read Gaddis annually, but I don't measure my dick by rote reading.
>I read Joyce's corpus annually
Oh, then you must know who Hamilton Rowan is and why he is significant to a certain text of Joyce's? If you have to Google this then I doubt your claims . . .
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Damn. This is the gotchaest gotcha to ever gotcha.
I went to the library and they didn't have any books I wanted. Lots of young adult stuff and some liberal books. I was looking for Orthodox stuff but in the Christianity section all they had was Joel Osteen kind of books...
you can tell all libraries threw away half of their books and bought new ones so the gender split was 50/50. so there are a bunch of trash books by trash females that just sit on the shelves
similar things are happening in every institution all over the country and world and we will see what happens. its just time to accelerate and roll the dice a little thats all
Never. It has basically none of the books I want. and I'm not looking for anything super niche, just English instead of shitty translations. >no Guenon >no Nabokov >no Infinite Jest >no Book of the New Sun
Almost never books are cheap as frick to buy online and free once you get an ereader. The curation just gets worse and worse now too so not even worth browsing for off chance of something interesting I may not have found on my own.
I live right by the main library in my town so I go and pick up books I’ve reserved all the time, but I don’t hang out there much because of the homeless people. I used to work as an administrator in one of the US’s largest public library systems and could tell you some stories. Something needs to be done. Perhaps requiring proof of municipal residency to enter or something. It’s incredible that third world countries have nicer libraries simply because they boot all the drug addicts and mentally ill people out instead of coddling them like we do in the US.
Literally the only times I used a library in the last 10 years was when I needed literature for my term papers on college that would be too expensive for me to buy personally, especially if I'm only going to use it once. The last one I wrote was five years ago.
All other books I want are relatively cheap to buy, have a 50/50 chance to not even be available in the first place (either because they're old or were never translated), and give me the ability to write my notes and marginalia inside them without being accused of defacing property. And don't let me get started on how easier it is to just extend my arm to my book shelf instead of going to the library every time I need or want something.
In other words, I reached the point where buying books is actually more convenient than using a library, not less. The only problem is the limited shelf space.
>All other books I want are relatively cheap to buy, have a 50/50 chance to not even be available in the first place (either because they're old or were never translated), and give me the ability to write my notes and marginalia inside them without being accused of defacing property. And don't let me get started on how easier it is to just extend my arm to my book shelf instead of going to the library every time I need or want something.
AND I can read them at my own pace without being limited by when I need to return them.
Never. It has basically none of the books I want. and I'm not looking for anything super niche, just English instead of shitty translations. >no Guenon >no Nabokov >no Infinite Jest >no Book of the New Sun
if you live in a small city, the library is where homeless junkies go to watch porn. low income households also use this place to print things. might be some goth girls. if you live in a big city, the library is where vapid morons go to take selfies and record tiktoks on how bookcore librarycore they are. not sure if there are any goth girls.
Haven't been there for almost ten years, I borrowed Nostromo and accidentally never returned it, so I stopped going. They didn't have many books anyway
Never. It got taken over by homeless people and it literally never has any of the books I really want. I always had to settle with something similar but not on point. With the internet, there is now no need for libraries and I don't think librarians should be doing anything except scanning paper into files, nowadays.
I work at that shit so yesterday. All the anons b***hing about the homeless are downplaying how bad it is. Schizo druggies basically live here and shit the place up but we cant do anything about it until they ape out and do something illegal not even when they watch porn in plain view of everyone. I think the last time one of them got kicked out was for watching cp and the guy was only banned for like a month. Also we have a childrens only bathrooms so that they dont walk in on bums doing drugs or gays cruising for anonymous sex.
>he doesn't live on the west coast
People can be arrested and then let out on the streets literally the same day because the DA refuses to prosecute against them, or slightly delay this process by charging them but then letting them go ROR with zero bail and then, surprisingly, they don't show up for their court date.
Haven't been to mine in ages, but honestly they usually just cater to children since schools often them schoolkids there so that's their biggest target audience. They do have a respectable scholastic collection which I have used once or twice in the past but usually if you're a student/researcher you have access to better libraries and now that I'm not in college anymore I don't really have much use for that stuff.
They have recently started this micro-libraries thing across town which I always thought as some lame ass gimmick but have actually suprised me, sometimes I check out some near me and the selections are actually pretty decent.
Only time I went to my city’s library there was a troon lurking around every corner, two of them actively diddling children, which the homeless ignored as they were too busy jerking off on the computers. It took me a while to race out of there as I had to avoid hordes of brown children in some type of en masse babysitting scheme. The whole experience soured me on libraries. The west has truly fallen
Once you get past the homeless people and drug addicts, and the demented geriatrics wandering aimlessly in the lobby, then make it past whatever drag-queen/regime compliant rebel kitsch banned books display they have going you can still count on there being a highly qualified and competent librarian behind the counter to tell your they don't have the book you want.
Someone with children will visit a library. The reason: children's books are expensive and since they are for kids, your kid won't want to read them once they are ≈15. So you go to the library to check out all these kid's books and YA novels.
my library has online search and hold requests so i can walk in and pick up my holds from a shelf up front.
also can request up to 30 books per year for them to purchase and they just buy em.
i used to go there often but I just use my kindle
What if you put live K-pop events and 3D printers IN the gas chamber? Would they enter willingly?
They'll just 3D print some gas masks
Can't 3D print the filters.
How do you think they got the israelites?
I use mine for interlibrary loans. The library space itself isn't the coziest, and their regular collection development policies aren't really conducive to me finding a lot to read, but as long as I can use ILL at no charge I'm grateful.
I haven't been to any of my local libraries since 2009
It's always hard to find a seat alone, but I guess that's what it has come to with the vagrants that frequent it.
If I go, it is just and in and out affair.
I live in a big US city and I go to the central library often. It’s like 8 floors and has comfy reading and student working space.
I just got a kindle, I foresee myself still going often
Why would I go to the homeless masturbation center?
Libraries are badass!
Why do redditors like exclamation points so much? Is it the text version of the soiface?
It's quite logical to overuse exclamation points if you value attention over expressing your ideas with dignity.
I don't spend any time in it but I go there to borrow something every couple of months. I also use my membership to access ebooks and audiobooks on Hoopla quite often.
I use my city's library for books I don't want to buy (and I'm trying to buy less books so using public library more). I also balled out and got and registered for an extension school class at a big 10 university in my city which grandfathers me into borrowing privileges at their library for scholarly needs that the public library can't fulfill. Libraries are goated IMO. I also hit audiobooks through the public library when I go the gym. It's a more limited selection so I just pick random shit that sounds interesting. Did all volumes of Knausgaard's my struggle this way. Starting Eichmann in Jerusalem now on audiobook via public library.
>audiobook slave
You disgust me.
lmao seethe harder b***h. How many books did you read last year? 12? Including game of thrones and an LOTR re-read? The audiobooks are supplemental. I read the Joyce corpus annually. My pinky finger is more well-read than your entire lineage. Good day sir. I said good day!
>How many books did you read last year? 12?
Over 50. Seethe more. Congrats on reading Joyce annually. I also read Gaddis annually, but I don't measure my dick by rote reading.
>I read Joyce's corpus annually
Oh, then you must know who Hamilton Rowan is and why he is significant to a certain text of Joyce's? If you have to Google this then I doubt your claims . . .
Damn. This is the gotchaest gotcha to ever gotcha.
>I read the Joyce corpus annually
You mean that you listen to the radio drama
Hey, audiobooks are not radio dramas. I say that as aradio drama fan.
It's just homeless people. Nobody uses the expensive props, hardly anybody attends the activities either
I went to the library and they didn't have any books I wanted. Lots of young adult stuff and some liberal books. I was looking for Orthodox stuff but in the Christianity section all they had was Joel Osteen kind of books...
you can tell all libraries threw away half of their books and bought new ones so the gender split was 50/50. so there are a bunch of trash books by trash females that just sit on the shelves
This is very true. The books on display and in the open were women books and teen girl books
my library has this chud manlet working there who curates all kinds of old chud books. he's retiring early this year because he can't take the woke
similar things are happening in every institution all over the country and world and we will see what happens. its just time to accelerate and roll the dice a little thats all
use interlibrary loans
Almost never books are cheap as frick to buy online and free once you get an ereader. The curation just gets worse and worse now too so not even worth browsing for off chance of something interesting I may not have found on my own.
They have a yearly book sale
Taxes went up cuz they spent 20 mil building it so I try and steal something
I live right by the main library in my town so I go and pick up books I’ve reserved all the time, but I don’t hang out there much because of the homeless people. I used to work as an administrator in one of the US’s largest public library systems and could tell you some stories. Something needs to be done. Perhaps requiring proof of municipal residency to enter or something. It’s incredible that third world countries have nicer libraries simply because they boot all the drug addicts and mentally ill people out instead of coddling them like we do in the US.
Literally the only times I used a library in the last 10 years was when I needed literature for my term papers on college that would be too expensive for me to buy personally, especially if I'm only going to use it once. The last one I wrote was five years ago.
All other books I want are relatively cheap to buy, have a 50/50 chance to not even be available in the first place (either because they're old or were never translated), and give me the ability to write my notes and marginalia inside them without being accused of defacing property. And don't let me get started on how easier it is to just extend my arm to my book shelf instead of going to the library every time I need or want something.
In other words, I reached the point where buying books is actually more convenient than using a library, not less. The only problem is the limited shelf space.
>All other books I want are relatively cheap to buy, have a 50/50 chance to not even be available in the first place (either because they're old or were never translated), and give me the ability to write my notes and marginalia inside them without being accused of defacing property. And don't let me get started on how easier it is to just extend my arm to my book shelf instead of going to the library every time I need or want something.
AND I can read them at my own pace without being limited by when I need to return them.
Never. It has basically none of the books I want. and I'm not looking for anything super niche, just English instead of shitty translations.
>no Guenon
>no Nabokov
>no Infinite Jest
>no Book of the New Sun
this guy has 2 million reddit karma
Plebbit despises Nabokov.
plebbit loves Nabokov
Pale Fire is an LGBT landmark in literature.
if you live in a small city, the library is where homeless junkies go to watch porn. low income households also use this place to print things. might be some goth girls. if you live in a big city, the library is where vapid morons go to take selfies and record tiktoks on how bookcore librarycore they are. not sure if there are any goth girls.
Once a month maybe. I use their ebook app too.
Why wouldn't I just buy my own books?
Because you might waste your money that way. Use the library to skim books. Buy the stuff that skimming proves to be worth reading more deeply into
You just posted a reddit screencap Black person! What happened to IQfy?
How does badass denote a characteristic of a library?
Haven't been there for almost ten years, I borrowed Nostromo and accidentally never returned it, so I stopped going. They didn't have many books anyway
Never. It got taken over by homeless people and it literally never has any of the books I really want. I always had to settle with something similar but not on point. With the internet, there is now no need for libraries and I don't think librarians should be doing anything except scanning paper into files, nowadays.
I work at that shit so yesterday. All the anons b***hing about the homeless are downplaying how bad it is. Schizo druggies basically live here and shit the place up but we cant do anything about it until they ape out and do something illegal not even when they watch porn in plain view of everyone. I think the last time one of them got kicked out was for watching cp and the guy was only banned for like a month. Also we have a childrens only bathrooms so that they dont walk in on bums doing drugs or gays cruising for anonymous sex.
>caught a guy watching CP and he wasn't immediately jailed by police
Doubt
He was jailed but he was an old fart so the courts must have gone easy on him. Hes not even one of the worst c**ts I saw.
>he doesn't live on the west coast
People can be arrested and then let out on the streets literally the same day because the DA refuses to prosecute against them, or slightly delay this process by charging them but then letting them go ROR with zero bail and then, surprisingly, they don't show up for their court date.
Just stop living in a shithole
Haven't been to mine in ages, but honestly they usually just cater to children since schools often them schoolkids there so that's their biggest target audience. They do have a respectable scholastic collection which I have used once or twice in the past but usually if you're a student/researcher you have access to better libraries and now that I'm not in college anymore I don't really have much use for that stuff.
They have recently started this micro-libraries thing across town which I always thought as some lame ass gimmick but have actually suprised me, sometimes I check out some near me and the selections are actually pretty decent.
never its has nongendered bathrooms and demons reading to children im looking for options to defund them
Only time I went to my city’s library there was a troon lurking around every corner, two of them actively diddling children, which the homeless ignored as they were too busy jerking off on the computers. It took me a while to race out of there as I had to avoid hordes of brown children in some type of en masse babysitting scheme. The whole experience soured me on libraries. The west has truly fallen
>3d printers, sewing classes, yoga, k-pop
Do they have books at the library?
I only go there to print stuff.
Once you get past the homeless people and drug addicts, and the demented geriatrics wandering aimlessly in the lobby, then make it past whatever drag-queen/regime compliant rebel kitsch banned books display they have going you can still count on there being a highly qualified and competent librarian behind the counter to tell your they don't have the book you want.
So fricking true
Go to a Barnes and Noble with a list of a dozen books and they don't have a single fricking one
>tell me you don’t have a family without saying i don’t have a family
What does having a family have to do with anything?
Someone with children will visit a library. The reason: children's books are expensive and since they are for kids, your kid won't want to read them once they are ≈15. So you go to the library to check out all these kid's books and YA novels.
Fair.
my library has online search and hold requests so i can walk in and pick up my holds from a shelf up front.
also can request up to 30 books per year for them to purchase and they just buy em.
If I want to quarrel with homeless people I'll walk in the street
The last time I went to my local branch there were a bunch of paramedics inside cause some homeless guy ODd on fentanyl in the bathroom
Still use the library quite a bit tho