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Books UnBanned: Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Public Library is offering FREE digital library cards nationwide to anyone aged 13-21 for a limited time, to combat book banning. BPL's usual fee for out-of-state residents is $50.
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05-06-2022, 11:22 PM | #2 |
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Nice idea.
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05-28-2022, 11:37 PM | #3 |
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they actually carry Abigail Shrier's book "irreversible damage", which is often banned. good library.
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06-03-2022, 08:41 PM | #4 |
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I just coughed up $50 for a regular out-of-state library card.
Besides some hiccups getting it started I've been pleased with it and the availability of books vs. the long wait times for my regular library. I'm about a factor of three outside the age range for a free card anyway. |
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I know only bad people banned books in the past.
But isn't the banning nowadays good? |
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(Most grating, three copies of the first volume of a trilogy and zero additional volumes!) As somebody who knows something about libraries, I realize they can't accept random physical donations (someone's hand-written 20 volume autobiography) and for different reasons (ownership and DRM) random digital donations. Yet I don't know what the cost to a library it is to procure the rights to a digital asset. Is it the same cost as for you and me? I sent an email to my library. "You have this book in the 3rd edition. I'll donate $50 if you'll buy the 5th edition." No reply. |
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06-12-2022, 05:22 PM | #10 | |
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One chart I ran into for the Big 5 was:
At my local library, one recent horrible example was an ebook that was priced at $104.29 Cdn with a 52 loan limit/2 year limit so the library would be paying ~$2 or more per loan. The same book from Kobo or Amazon Canada was on sale for $9.99 Cdn. |
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06-12-2022, 06:46 PM | #11 |
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Thanks!
In my ignorance I thought that they bought and own "a copy" and can do anything they want as long as only one person is reading it at a time. So you're saying that when I check out a book, besides denying other, I am actually eating into an asset? Yikes! I try to be good, I only check out a book when I'm empty, not to put it on the stack. Most of my libraries have a minimum 7 day checkout and I use that. One library also has 2 and 4 day checkout. OTOH, I've had the experience of getting a book for 7 days and realizing that it's actually 800 pages of densonium! |
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I rather doubt it, they've also made a post over in the NYPL version of this thread (NYC has both a library system for Brooklyn and NYC, previously I think Queens had one but it may have folded into the NYC system).
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Perhaps just an attempt to stir the pot? For the most part IRL, I find it's often people's nasty prejudices that cause pressure to be applied to have books banned. To slightly misquote a song's lyrics, "But honey, they're not our kind". |
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