I guarantee 98% of you dont even read or have a library card.

[Oatmeal]

I grew up 3 houses from a library, that was the place to be on a Friday night at age 9. This was just before libraries were used for computers.

My first library card password was 1472, after Jermaine Dupri’s album.

I’m still after a book I remember going through as a 4 year old, some guy riding a motorcycle with a glass windshield and bugs getting smashed against it.

I have my own library now, physical and digital.

That place molded me, I still see it in my dreams

I used to get dropped off at the library instead of my parents using babysitters

Be there for like 4hrs pre-internet era just reading all types off stuff, nobody I've ever spoken to as an adult experienced that

 

[shopthatwrecks]

Don't even get me started on the females.

lmfaocant make this shyt up

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/books-what-are-you-reading-official-book-thread.149741/

Just got a few books that came in the mail the other day.

Also use the Libby app for library e-books. Mainly use ebooks at work for hardcovers I have at home

 

[GreenGhxst]

why would I read if I don't get AR points

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

how the fukk you gonna listen took a book? hahhahaha you 2000 kids man

I noticed a lot of people listening to audiobooks on Instagram

 

[Nabs]

This browser extension is clutch: Library Extension - See book availability from your local library's catalogs | Library Extension

It will search your local library catalog when you browse book pages on sites like Amazon or Goodreads. It supports Hoopla, Overdrive and free sources as well.

 

[MegaTronBomb!]

That and I noticed over Covid that Library’s have games and blue rays now. I try out games I don’t want to pay for from time to time.

They've had video games,albums and movies for nearly 20 years now.... but it's a lot of people who don't know that cause they haven't been to a library since they were a kid.

 

[SCJoe]

they haven't been to a library since they were a kid.

Yeah, i admit, I was just buying shyt and getting ebooks for a minute there

 

[Robo Squirrel]

Reading is fundamental.

 

[Robo Squirrel]

A mf audio book ain't a book mf!

 

[HabitualChiller]

*Sips apple juice as reading Dune*

 

[MJ Truth]

A general misconception is that the only thing at libraries are books.

Libraries in most major cities offer things from access to public records, classes to learn/practice languages and other skills. all the way to renting power tools.

A lot of scammers wouldn't be as successful as they are if people realized that books provide everything their courses do...for free, and you don't run the risk of committing fraud.

Yes. They would be. People realize the information is in books and for free. People don’t want to actually go through the process of learning on their own when someone can sell them a curated version of what they need to know. It’s eqsierb

 

[TEH]

I really should get a library card …

Right now I order books and I use audible …

 

[Ghost Utmost]

It's ironic that we do so much reading and writing on here.

If you post regularly you've written a novel the size of The Stand. Prolly a few times over depending on your join date.

Yet some Brehs won't spend 10 min reading about actual research before they form their opinions.

As for the library, I am holding it in my hand. I've read so much about the subjects I'm into that I seldom find new information. Quantum physics for example. Unless I get a degree in advanced mathematics, I have learned everything I can about it (as a random person who is not actually a scientist).

Only time I ever read a book in one sitting I was about like 9 hanging out at the local library when I found Donald Goines' Swamp Man. Sat there for hours and read the whole thing. I was telling my homie what I had just read and a lady overheard me and scolded me about reading such filth.

 

[Sleepy Floyd]

Reading is overrated especially in 2023

Video format online is so much better