I thought so too but it turns out ereaders have special screens that mimic paper and don't strain your eyes very much, and with epub file format you can resize the text to be as big as you want, now kobo libra is more comfy than books
>library across town >might not even have to book I want >have to return it >its right next to a church that does no church services just feeds hobos and flies lgbt flags
no thanks I'll pay $10 for a book then tell Amazon its damaged
I use mine for ebooks and audio books. Also signed up for another one after I moved. Now I get to choose which to borrow from depending on availability. I may never pay for another book again.
Libraries are mostly obsolete and full of homeless people these days. Piracy is objectively superior. I can download any book I want from libgen, which has saved me a couple thousand on textbooks. Scihub is amazing and provides free access to basically every scientific paper ever written. And of course you can torrent everything else.
It's still good to support creators, so you should do that when you can. Though as I reflect on it, I seem to mostly do it to give myself a sense of self-righteousness, or to simply have a nice looking bookshelf.
Public libraries are full of absolute slop you can just find online. You gotta go to uni libraries or the like to find anything interesting and most people don't have access to a decent library. The public library system is a joke run full of people who are the intellectual equivalent of public school teachers. They do serve the purpose of offering various services but overall those services would better be handled in other ways. Into the trash.
I've never really liked the library. I don't like the time limit placed on reading the book as I have a very longstanding habit of reading multiple books concurrently. In 2019 I surrendered to the ereaders once and for all. I was already a seasoned digital pirate and having nearly (key word: nearly) everything I could ever want, for free, both on my Kindle Paperwhite, and on my phone. However I found PDFs to be unpleasant to read on my phone, and impossible on my Kindle with the 7.5" screen. Some ebooks were only available on PDF. So after several years of going out of my way to purchase said books that were a) only available on PDF, or b) not available digitally at all, now I only need go with option b) when it comes to buying new/specific/physical books as I bought a tablet earlier this year and finally am able to read all those PDFs I previously couldn't. I still buy the odd random book though, usually unexpected finds in thrift stores. >Kindle for epubs >Samsung tablet for PDFs >Amazon and Indigo for the hyper specific stuff >Value Village for surprise finds
Nonironically this. Whenever I ask these overweight, likely liberal women anything they act as if I've bothered them and not asked them to do their fricking job. Not sure why, as I'm 6'0ft and have nice hair and fairly handsome. The older librarians like me, though.
My library used to have a dedicated history section, it was in its own room on the second floor with shelf after shelf of history books, and being this old stone colonial building the big windows were so deeply set into the carved stone you could completely sit on the window sill and look down at the world while reading.
I loved it so much.
They gutted it and turned it into a rentable conference room. Now the history section is smaller than their selection of DVDs.
>take metro to soulless mall >that'll be $5 please >walk into concrete box labeled library >screaming MENA spawn everywhere >have to move through the playground and the inbred geriatic sections before I get to the books >spend a few minutes scouring their eight shelves for something to read >it's all childrens' books, ya, modern politics, popsci and porn >go home >order in something from the central library >only the worst editions available >arrives two weeks later >have to travel there again, $5, search for them, scan it >every other page creased to shit, spine busted, covered in suspicious stains, half of it highlighted pink and puke green, vapid scribbles everywhere, or brought insects into my house >have to go back again to return it all two weeks later, $5
OR
>at home in bathrobe, cup of coffee in my hand >"hm, I'd like to read that book" >find it in 15 seconds, pay $7 >timeless masterpiece arrives at my door three days later >my preferred edition >mint condition >mine to keep forever
I like to own my books
Internet and e-readers made physical libraries obsolete.
homie libraries lend ebooks and audiobooks too
why the frick would i lend an ebook from library when i can just download it from the internet
guaranteed formatting quality. too many books online are calibre autoconverted garbage.
Reading PDFs online is far less enjoyable than reading from a physical copy. Not nearly as kino.
I thought so too but it turns out ereaders have special screens that mimic paper and don't strain your eyes very much, and with epub file format you can resize the text to be as big as you want, now kobo libra is more comfy than books
So much this. And I'm a poorgay so I only read from my phone..imagine reading aristotles entire work on your phone. This hurts anons
I do, though I only borrow books to see if they're worth buying (I am a bibliophile). I also study a lot at my local library, it's nice and quiet 🙂
>free
I used to, but now I own my own apartment and the library is too far, so I'm slowly growing my own home library.
My local library is literally only filled with slop
I live in a small town in a poor country. My personal library is better than my local library.
>library across town
>might not even have to book I want
>have to return it
>its right next to a church that does no church services just feeds hobos and flies lgbt flags
no thanks I'll pay $10 for a book then tell Amazon its damaged
You may a black person who reads, but you're in your heart of hearts you're still black.
ignore the first you're, i'm moronic.
Not him but Amazon always ships books in those thin bubble wrap envelopes that scuff the corners and bend the pages, so I think it's is fair
they can usually order a book from another library for you and you can pick it up at your library. are people on this site this dumb?
well then you're clearly an idiot
gay. notice the first thing you think of
>I'll pay $10 for a book then tell amazon its damaged
Holy based
absolute moron
I use mine for ebooks and audio books. Also signed up for another one after I moved. Now I get to choose which to borrow from depending on availability. I may never pay for another book again.
Unless I can check them out for 3 months at a time they're useless to me.
I’m not poor so I own the books I read
this. enjoy the secondhand hobo cum
Libraries are mostly obsolete and full of homeless people these days. Piracy is objectively superior. I can download any book I want from libgen, which has saved me a couple thousand on textbooks. Scihub is amazing and provides free access to basically every scientific paper ever written. And of course you can torrent everything else.
It's still good to support creators, so you should do that when you can. Though as I reflect on it, I seem to mostly do it to give myself a sense of self-righteousness, or to simply have a nice looking bookshelf.
absolute moron
absolute moron
Public libraries are full of absolute slop you can just find online. You gotta go to uni libraries or the like to find anything interesting and most people don't have access to a decent library. The public library system is a joke run full of people who are the intellectual equivalent of public school teachers. They do serve the purpose of offering various services but overall those services would better be handled in other ways. Into the trash.
Most city libraries have interlibrary loan, so you can get almost whatever you want from the university collections through the public library.
>walk in
>see an interesting book
>https://library.lol/main/7AFAC3641E795E2450E2EBE2C370593A
>helloooooooooo?!??
I've never really liked the library. I don't like the time limit placed on reading the book as I have a very longstanding habit of reading multiple books concurrently. In 2019 I surrendered to the ereaders once and for all. I was already a seasoned digital pirate and having nearly (key word: nearly) everything I could ever want, for free, both on my Kindle Paperwhite, and on my phone. However I found PDFs to be unpleasant to read on my phone, and impossible on my Kindle with the 7.5" screen. Some ebooks were only available on PDF. So after several years of going out of my way to purchase said books that were a) only available on PDF, or b) not available digitally at all, now I only need go with option b) when it comes to buying new/specific/physical books as I bought a tablet earlier this year and finally am able to read all those PDFs I previously couldn't. I still buy the odd random book though, usually unexpected finds in thrift stores.
>Kindle for epubs
>Samsung tablet for PDFs
>Amazon and Indigo for the hyper specific stuff
>Value Village for surprise finds
>while supporting the author
Lol. Lmao even. If you pirate it and give it a glowing review on a couple of sites that’s doing more than a rental does.
>walk into library
>the middle aged female receptionists stare me down until i leave
Nonironically this. Whenever I ask these overweight, likely liberal women anything they act as if I've bothered them and not asked them to do their fricking job. Not sure why, as I'm 6'0ft and have nice hair and fairly handsome. The older librarians like me, though.
My library used to have a dedicated history section, it was in its own room on the second floor with shelf after shelf of history books, and being this old stone colonial building the big windows were so deeply set into the carved stone you could completely sit on the window sill and look down at the world while reading.
I loved it so much.
They gutted it and turned it into a rentable conference room. Now the history section is smaller than their selection of DVDs.
>take metro to soulless mall
>that'll be $5 please
>walk into concrete box labeled library
>screaming MENA spawn everywhere
>have to move through the playground and the inbred geriatic sections before I get to the books
>spend a few minutes scouring their eight shelves for something to read
>it's all childrens' books, ya, modern politics, popsci and porn
>go home
>order in something from the central library
>only the worst editions available
>arrives two weeks later
>have to travel there again, $5, search for them, scan it
>every other page creased to shit, spine busted, covered in suspicious stains, half of it highlighted pink and puke green, vapid scribbles everywhere, or brought insects into my house
>have to go back again to return it all two weeks later, $5
OR
>at home in bathrobe, cup of coffee in my hand
>"hm, I'd like to read that book"
>find it in 15 seconds, pay $7
>timeless masterpiece arrives at my door three days later
>my preferred edition
>mint condition
>mine to keep forever
Yeah, I wonder why libraries are dying. Frick you
the single room used bookstore near me has a better selection than the city librarys entire catalog