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Public libraries: Anyone use them or are they just for the poor people who don't know how to use the internet?

I consider myself a reader but I haven't gotten a book from a library since I was under 10, but I feel like in the past it would have been a good place for me to meet people.

>> No.2444323

i don't like the bindings most library copies have of older books.

so no.

>> No.2444328

I haven't gotten a book from a library in years.
Not since I got a job.

>> No.2444330

Gyms: Anyone use them or are they just for the poor people who don't know how to use a work-out tape?

I consider myself an avid athlete but I haven't gotten a membership card from a gym since I was under 10, but I feel like in the past it would have been a good place for me to meet people.

>> No.2444337

I get most of my books from libraries.

>> No.2444351

Sex: Anyone actually take part in it or is it just for the sad people who can't be bothered to use the internet and their hand?

I consider myself sexually active but I haven't been laid since I was under 10, but I feel like in the past it would have been a good thing for me to have shared bodily fluids with a member of the opposite sex.

>> No.2444372

Toilets: Anyone use them or are they just for the poor people who don't know how to use a non-electric alternative septic system?

I consider myself an avid defecator but I haven't gotten a toilet since I was under 10, but I feel like in the past it would have been a good place for me to meet people.

>> No.2444380

I live in a bad neighborhood so the selection of books is shit. I have a car and the Metro leaves you a short distance from the Central Library here in Los Angeles, so I guess I have no excuse to not go. I should check it out tomorrow.

>> No.2444381

>>2444330
>>2444351
I agree with both of these. Gyms aren't for working out they are for showing off. And I'm not likely to have sex barring some incident where I lose both of my arms.

I understand there people like >>2444323 who
care about the physical properties of the book for some unknown psychological reason but I can get 1,231,998 books from just a single website. I guess I answered my own question and libraries are like gyms, people go to show off.

>> No.2444384

>>2444372
Toilets aren't electric. You can go back to /b/ or reddit or whatever now.

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2444386

i use to work at one, i love the ladies there. mostly its for homeless people and people who don't have a computer. the books that get checked out are how to on farming and making weapons or religious books.

>> No.2444392

libraries are handy for school references and for those people who dislike reading off a computer screen... though guess mainly the people to dislike reading off a computer screen. :)

also, unless ur pirating them it can be difficult to have the variety and quantity u tend to find in public library systems.

>> No.2444393

Librarianfag here. I'd say a solid 60-70% of people who come through the door aren't there for the books, but the computers, various programs we run (ESL classes, story time, etc.), or just looking for a quiet place to sit down & do some work or whatever. A bulk of the material that does get checked out is usually DVDs, pulp fiction, and language learning kits (though this might be skewed, I live in one of the immigrant capitals of Canada.)

Anyone curious about statistics, I work at one of seventeen branches in a large city (~700,000 people), and we bring in about 1200 people per day.

tl;dr yes they still get used & our numbers are actually going up, though a lot of "people traffic" are there to learn/be entertained and a lot of our "book traffic" is movies and Danielle Steel

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2444397

Yes, I libary.

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2444399

> that feel when your local library is full of loud homeless drug addicts and cunts using the computers to browse facebook.

>> No.2444401

I use my library constantly. The internet doesn't have the majority of the books I like to read, and so inter-library comes in great handy.

It's not a matter of poverty, but I'm just not willing to shell out $400 again and again on 100 page out of print books that seem kind of interesting and that I may or may not like.

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2444413

> mfw i have met 4 fuck buddies whilst browsing the sociology section of my local library.

>> No.2444418

I use the library. But it is a University Library, not a public one. That may be why I don't ever see homeless people in there.

>> No.2444426

4chan: Anyone use it or is it just for the poor people who don't know how to use reddit?

I consider myself a nonymous but I haven't posted on 4chan since I was under 10, but I feel like in the past it would have been a good place for me to meet people.

>> No.2444437

I pirate most of my books and read them on my kindle, but I like to read non-fiction in a book format so I get them from the library

>> No.2444451

There are no homeless people in my city's central public library. There is a truly astonishing selection of international fiction (in Slovenian!) available, so I visit once every month, renting four or five books. Btw, is that the right term in English, "renting from a library"?

The library has recently been refurnished and also offers a place for conversation, a wisely separated internet access cum newspaper reading room, and several tables in the main space for study. The only bad thing is that these are constantly occupied by crafty students and journalists. I love my library.

As for the academic library, the books there are on demand only, which means that it is useless for reading outside of college-prescribed materials. But don't get me started on its reading room, it looks like a palace library, and I'm sure I'd get full marks on every exam if I bothered studying there. The sustained silence of so many people is beautiful.

>> No.2444456

The idea that libraries will disappear makes me said /lit/.

>> No.2444455

>>2444321
I use the library all the time. I start reading books while waiting for students and check out anything I find interesting.

>>2444381
so are you a fat piece of shit or a really weak skinny guy? /fit/

>> No.2444460

>>2444456
You must admit that it is a pretty far-fetched idea though.

>> No.2444471

>>2444380
>>2444397

Haha the central library is pretty legit.
On the rare occasion that it fails me I can usually find the book I'm looking for at UCLA.
Thanks for reminding me I have some books to pick up tomorrow.

>> No.2444476

>>2444397
>>2444399
That's why if I was Mayor of my town (Los Angeles) I would rescue libraries by ceasing the funding for computers being put in them. Computers are the most expensive things inside a library, they constantly have to be upgraded or fixed, and the only people who use them are kids watching youtube and homeless people watching porn.

Also, I'd get rid of the restrooms in the libraries, it's one of the main things that attracts the homeless bums.

>> No.2444484

>>2444476
Where will the librarians take pisses?

>> No.2444489

I library.

It's good.

>> No.2444486

>>2444476

The Central Library is infested with hobos but thankfully it is big enough that you really shouldn't have any trouble with them. The Tokyo branch on the other hand is just packed with bums on the computers everytime I have been there.

>> No.2444493

>>2444486
How do bums using computers disturb you? Have they ever harassed you?

>> No.2444494

>>2444484
Wherever they lunch at. Or we should use the money we save by not having computers in order to hire security guards, that way the librarians can actually control the homeless people without having to be too scared to order them around.

>> No.2444495

>>2444476

Jesus, you really are an asshole.

Amerikkkan republican?

>> No.2444500

>small townfag detected

They smell like shit and treat the facilities like shit. Besides, it's a library, not a cyber cafe. If Los Angeles is having trouble paying the bills at the libraries (and it most definitely is), these should be the first thing to go.

>> No.2444501

>>2444494

How about actually looking at why the homeless drift in and out of libraries instead of ways of keeping them out you fucking moron.

>> No.2444502

>>2444493

Not me personally but, I feel for anyone who has a legit need for the computers who has to wait an hour for the hobos to stop watching Yewchube or porn.

>> No.2444508

I was homeless for two years. Libraries along with the church kept me alive.

>> No.2444509

>>2444501
They go there because there are bathrooms and free entertainment (via magazines, books, and the computers). Public Libraries in LA are basically homeless shelters.

>> No.2444510

>>2444508
I actually didn't have a place to live when I first moved to LA when I was 18; slept in my car. Spent a lot of time in the libraries because they were free.

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>>2444509

Yes indeed. 'Free entertainment' is a priority for the vulnerable. Shelter and warmth is the last thing on their mind. they must be bored shitless out on dem streets, right bro?

>> No.2444517

these damn drug riddled homeless people, why can't they all just disappear and stop frequenting public places.

>> No.2444526

>>2444517
Yeah, we should probably just melt them down for fuel

>> No.2444528

>>2444517

It's all fun and games until a cracked out homeless person sneaks on to the bus, sits next to you and then farts on you (I have actually witnessed this).

>> No.2444531

>>2444514
Shelter and warmth? Guess you've never been to Los Angeles...

>> No.2444536

>>2444514

As someone who's camped in his backyard before I feel obligated to tell you that warmth and such is really easy to get access to without stinking up the public libraries >:(

>> No.2444534

This is why I only use university libraries.

>> No.2444541

>>2444531

Because you get a special variety of vagrant out there?

>> No.2444544

I check out about 3 books a month. I hardly ever see people browsing the bookshelves, they're either homeless people waiting for a computer or hispanics with their loud, stupid children looking at DVD's.

Libraries should not rent goddamn DVD's :|

>> No.2444566

>>2444541
It's fucking warm all year round you retard.

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>>2444566

this is why the world hates you.

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>>2444566

why do you all bother buying houses (apartments) and shit then?

>> No.2444596

>>2444583
So I can have a place to hold books that is free of stinky, loud and violent hobos.

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>>2444596
> stinky, loud and violent

but from my understanding, that's the general ethos of your weak culture anyway though?

>> No.2444613

>>2444606

> dat multikill bonus

>> No.2444776 [DELETED] 

I'd complain that once when I was at the library, there was a homeless guy sitting at the one computer with a scanner (or the only one that was working at the time) (fortunately the librarian was a bit thrilled that someone had a legit need for the scanner, and she kicked him off it. In this particular circumstance, I was unfamiliar with their set-up and didn't realize before asking a librarian, which computer(s) had scanners—otherwise I would've asked him myself, to get off of it.)

I'd mention that complaint, but I've been at uni libraries too, where some bitch is sitting at the scanner PC fucking around on The Facebook, oblivious to the fact that it's one of the few scanning PCs. (The other three are either out-of-order, or being used by people actually scanning stuff.)

I'd complain that there are a lot of homeless in the library's computer lab, but 1) I don't use the lab computers at the library, and 2) that's more an issue with library administrators' resource-allocational priorities. I think that we may well be past the point where ample availability of computers with a basic application suite and high-speed internet access, is really a selling point.for a library, or attracts the type of patrons they might hope to attract.

Also, my town has a sort-of employment center, which has its own computer lab. If you're legitimately looking for a job, fucking go there.

>> No.2444808

Now that library.nu shut down I may just have to go outside again :(