Mandy 🌼 🌷 ☀️Mar 17

Another day, another instance of someone on the Fediverse telling people not to do something which is essentially a public good.

This time it's a librarian telling people not to borrow ebooks from libraries. The other option isn't cheaper, permanent physical books, I'm afraid. For many people, it's immediately available ebooks on pirate sites.

It's taken me so long to get my friends, nieces and godchildren to use Libby and BorrowBox (for audiobooks).

It is very disheartening to read something so exclusionary and privileged. I know most librarians want you to take advantage of anything and everything a library has to offer because their use justifies their expenditure.

#bookstodon

Show threadlemgandi

@mandy

I still much prefer books that don't read you back. And the whole weird artificial process of "returning" an electronic copy of a book makes no sense to me.

I just read physical books, TYVM.

Mar 17 at 1:24pmWeb
Show threadMandy 🌼 🌷 ☀️Mar 17

@lemgandi and that is absolutely your prerogative.

But having a preference for physical books doesn't detract from others' need or preference for electronic ones in the form of ebooks or audiobooks

Show threadlemgandiMar 17

@mandy

Shrug. Well taken, at least until libraries start shorting their physical collections for bits.