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Igel

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4. There are such people.

Reply to marybourg (Reply #1)

Tue Mar 19, 2013, 10:01 PM

Mar 2013

If they don't have to pay out-of-pocket costs, they're fairly oblivious to anybody else's out-of-pocket costs.

When you pick up a book that's been damaged or a DVD/CD that's been rendered pretty much unusable, you know there's a person that simply assumed that "somebody" would replace it. No skin off their nose, and theirs is the only nose that matters.

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There Are No Free Libraries [View all] brooklynite Mar 2013 OP

Yeah. Like we thought "free" to the user means marybourg Mar 2013 #1

There are such people. Igel Mar 2013 #4

The last sentence is the most important to me... Phentex Mar 2013 #2

I'm willing to bet that most people who use public libraries are aware that there is a cost involved Aristus Mar 2013 #3