• Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Yeah, my wife always gives me the gentle reminder to check the library first. I let my library card lapse, but I’ll have her sometimes check books out for me before I go pirate them. We have a few friends who work in the system, and every single interaction you have with the library benefits them. The library is a wonderful place, I need to stop being lazy and just go re-register, but my wife is an enabler.

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        I tell anyone I can that you can check out ebooks now from libraries. After you register online, you just download an app, sign in, and get to reading. Hoopla and Libby are 2 that I use, but I’m sure there are more.

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      5 hours ago

      You’re still depriving the capitalists of their well deserved, hard earned money! (ಥ_ʖಥ)

      If anyone is interested, there’s been an excellent episode recently on the “Behind the Bastards” podcast about Robert Maxwell and how he became a self made billionaire by inventing and fucking up modern scientific publishing with the support of British intelligence services.