libraries are the best

Librarians are the real life solution to “tip of my tongue” questions like that
- Librarians and Library's are the very heart of our country and the fucking GOP and far right are trying to destroy that. And if we don't stop them soon they will win.
  Look at the Moms for liberty they are front and center trying to destroy Library and they are succeeding.
  
  Education is anathema to their goals. Yes they want to destroy libraries... And elementary schools, and high schools and universities and public colleges and enrichment programs and scientific research and art and theatre and... Well most things it seems

The library is one of the last free places in most cities.
- They've really come a long way. The one near me has gaming rooms for computers now. Free DVD rental, there's a tea lounge, etc.
  Constantly reinventing themselves.
  
  My local library has a little maker space with a 3d printer and laser cutter/engraver you can book time on. It's pretty awesome.

Libraries are one of those concepts that sound very alien to today's mentality "what do you mean free renting of copyrighted material without paying the owner company?!"
- The whole concept of such a place as a physical conduit of knowledge seems to be one of the last things ergonomic still surviving.
  And also a place of comfort for people of a certain kind.
  I'm thinking that this irritated, depressed, sad state I'm currently in is in some sense because of not going to a library for some time (like 10 years) and picking a random fiction book with yellow pages smelling of dust. It's more natural than searching for something to read in Google or in Wikipedia even.

does anybody else remember before the computers lookup systems came how you could go to the library as a kid and say "I want to read about Egypt" and the librarian would walk you through the whole library pulling a dozen books off the shelves for you and giving you a summary of each book they suggest. it's like they read every book in the library!

"LIBRARIANS ARE PART OF A SECRET ORGANIZATION TRYING TO ESTABLISH A NEW WORLD ORDER!!!"
-Some Maga asshat, probably
- Worse. They have been very busy accusing librarians of being pedophiles and "groomers" on account of the existence of books mentioning LBQT+ subjects. They have literally shut down libraries by cutting funding for them on account of that.
- While radical militant librarians kick us around, true terrorists benefit from OIPR's failure to let us use the tools given to us, this should be an OIPR priority!!!
  Unidentified FBI Agent, 2005

Uh oh. Penguin Common House is going to throw a fit that they can't resell you a book in the public domain. Maybe they should sue the Internet Archive harder and also continue to lobby against public libraries.
This is a reminder: fuck Penguin Common House. Stop buying their books.

Not according to "welcome to night Vale"
- I always wanted a shirt that said, "I survived the summer reading program in Night Vale."