• @Zacryon@lemmy.wtf
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    -415 months ago

    No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

    However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country. Knowlegde should be a free and shared common good.

    • @01011@monero.town
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      5 months ago

      That depends on where you live. The Internet Archive is far more accessible than a good library, for much of the global populace.

    • @daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      155 months ago

      Libraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don’t really has anything but the more famous books.

      • @Akrenion@programming.dev
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        65 months ago

        They became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well.

        They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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          45 months ago

          True, but that doesn’t change the fact that specific books can be hard to find. Libraries are great, but they don’t solve the problem IA solves.

          • @Akrenion@programming.dev
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            25 months ago

            We got a nationwide network of specific books. You can order books to your local library if you are a little patient. They might not have a lot of selfpublished books but that is a problem of scale and negotiating power of publishers.

            • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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              15 months ago

              That’s pretty sweet! I grew up in an area with a county system, so you could get books from anywhere in the system (a dozen or so citires serving >1M people).

              My current library is just our city, but I can go to a few other cities to check out books, but I can’t use holds there unless I pay $2-3/item to have it delivered to my library. We have a statewide ebook/audiobook network (serves 3-4M people), so that’s nice.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        15 months ago

        i would fuck with public libraries if they had stocks of educational material, as well as communal spaces, which they generally do so.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      125 months ago

      No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

      actually blatantly wrong, public libraries are slowly dying and losing funding.