Being genuine, why would I ever use the library if I cannot keep the books? I am a neet who likes reading books I don't want to go outside and return them, just don't see the use of a library.
Libby exists so you don't have to go anywhere and having read a book is more important than owning it
my library usually lets you renew a book up to 3 times so you usually can keep them for 3 months at a timei think they might have delivery options as well for the disabled
Download pdf and print the book out yourself and stitch it together
>>25209737A4 paper flipped gives two pages of the platonic ideal of page size
>>25209103Fuck you I thought this was a Plotinus thread.
>>25209103i am too raped mentally to read homei need other people around me to keep me company if i wanna read
>>25209882This but the opposite. Me brain no work good around others cuz me nervous but me no can fix.
>>25209776Plotinus would agree with me, Porphyry talks about this.
>>25209737download pdf, get computer to read it to you, much better than reading a hard copy
>>25209103Modern libraries are mainly a community-driven institution. Even still, if you have a half-decent library, you get access to certain databases with primary sources. >but I can't keep the booksJust buy the books you want and check out the books that you're unsure about. If you buy a book that you end up hating, you've basically wasted your money because books have horrible resell value. At least you can turn a bad book back to the library
>>25212048Reading is a communal activity. The text and the reader constitute a community in themselves vis-a-vis the reader's internal dialogue with the text. Although it is primarily a receptive (snicker) relation, this does not render it a solitary activity, merely a transtemporal one with 3 members: 1.) the author who produces the text through the verbalization of the thoughtforms and subsequent refinement, censorship, reordering, and abridgedment, 2.) the text which is a separate entity from the author but with whom they must obviously have a relationship although the nature of this relationship is largely inaccessible to the reader and likely even completely imperceptible, and 3.) the reader who, by engaging with the text, creates an interpretation of the text and in doing so projects further relationships between the author, the text, the reader, and the broader universe the reader inhabits.It is no surprise then that the library is a social institution. The human being, after all, desires to exist in great abundance — to paraphrase Nietzsche's Will to Power — and one of the chief ways this desire is fulfilled is through validation and acknowledgement of one's existence by others. The public library, public in the sense that it is shared with and between two or more people rather than a strictly government-run establishment, serves as an avenue for this desire to be fulfilled. It gives authors whose works constitute the librarial corpus gain access to readership who read and interact with their works, interacting by proxy with the authors. The readers gain access to the plentitude of texts and authors, conversing with each one of the texts and authors they read and also other readers with whom they further relate with over the texts and authors they have read (and haven't read!).TLDR: a private library is like having a train run on you while a public library is an orgy. It's up to you to decide which one is less gay (or more gay if you are looking for that).
>>25212181Kek best post i read her in a long time
>>25212181or maybe its just like, uh, reading?
>>25212231sorry for the doublepost. for some reason I can't delete it. Mods plz delete
>>25212048Outside of colleges, the bookshare programs are absolutely dog shit.
>>25212286Seems like most public libraries give you access to a lot of free e and audiobooks
>>25212048I have a problem with this as with the modern digital age, you do not need to go to a "decent"-library in order to spend time reading a book which will make you think on buying because one can find a pdf online instead. See the following:>Think about reading specific translated book.>Find pdf on pirate site. >Read for an hour and a half.>Buy.As opposed to:>Go to local library to find specific translated book.>Search for book.>Cannot find it, decide to spend the next 15 minutes creating a library card to read a legal pdf on the archives.>There is no pdf (or seldomly "unavailable").>Finally ask about the book.>They say it is in another library 1billion hours away (and I can spend another 15 minutes of my life creating an account there just to read the pdf)>Decide to go back home and shitpost on /LIT/This problem is really the core of my question "...why would I ever use the library...". The institution is just there to bleed taxpayer money.
>>25209103You can check out blu-rays and rip them with makemkv but don't tell them I said that
>>25212471>i can easily get a free book sent anywhere across the country but i have to wait for it, therefore it's a waste of tax payer moneyBing bang yahooBut forreal doe sounds like you learned to use a library as an adukt, something i learned in like 4th grade.
>>25212787>doe sounds like you learned to use a library as an adukt, something i learned in like 4th grade.Anon I...
>>25213406>3rd–5th Grade: This is a peak period for DDS instruction. Students often begin to grasp how subjects are categorized and refined. By 5th grade, some curricula use Dewey to teach computational thinking by having students analyze and identify themes within specific data sets (Dewey sections).
>>25209103If you don't go to the library where will you peruse?
