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Aristus

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3. I love libraries, and will defend the importance of libraries to my dying breath.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Wed May 3, 2017, 03:18 PM

May 2017

But I think the ladies protest too much.

Take-a-book, leave-a-book neighborhood libraries are wonderful things that should be defended with equal fervor.

Not every community has a public library; some that do are too far to reach for those without appropriate transportation. Easy access to books, easy access to the means of self-education should be every human being's birthright.

A literate public; an informed public. That's the prize. Let's not take our eyes off it...

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Against Little Free Libraries [View all] brooklynite May 2017 OP

Sounds like baloney to me, elleng May 2017 #1

You're more generous than I am Retrograde May 2017 #2

I love libraries, and will defend the importance of libraries to my dying breath. Aristus May 2017 #3

Most of the time that I've seen them, they're either filled with religious books or haele May 2017 #4

Jeez Louise, even my Podunk Carnegie library has a 'free library'.... Brother Buzz May 2017 #5

I have a Little Free Library. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #6