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5/13/2022 05:25:00 PM
Definitely better to stay on the shelf vs landfill. But I'd argue that while it isn't zero sum, the book buying craze and the death of the library are far from unconnected. The process of "starve the beast" works like this: 1) a common civic space has avid supporters who contribute to its success partially because it's in their personal interest to keep it up. 2) a privatized solution (like buy every book you want for yourself) comes along and makes the common solution less important for those avid supporters. 3) the common space has fewer supporters who are concerned with it surviving, it becomes a budget burden and fewer people are there to complain when it's slowly dismantled. I think that's pretty close to describing the death of the city library IMHO.