Uh oh. Penguin Common House is going to throw a fit that they can’t resell you a book in the public domain. Maybe they should sue the Internet Archive harder and also continue to lobby against public libraries.
This is a reminder: fuck Penguin Common House. Stop buying their books.
Libraries are one of those concepts that sound very alien to today’s mentality “what do you mean free renting of copyrighted material without paying the owner company?!”
The whole concept of such a place as a physical conduit of knowledge seems to be one of the last things ergonomic still surviving.
And also a place of comfort for people of a certain kind.
I’m thinking that this irritated, depressed, sad state I’m currently in is in some sense because of not going to a library for some time (like 10 years) and picking a random fiction book with yellow pages smelling of dust. It’s more natural than searching for something to read in Google or in Wikipedia even.
Librarians are the real life solution to “tip of my tongue” questions like that
Librarians and Library’s are the very heart of our country and the fucking GOP and far right are trying to destroy that. And if we don’t stop them soon they will win.
Look at the Moms for liberty they are front and center trying to destroy Library and they are succeeding.
Education is anathema to their goals. Yes they want to destroy libraries… And elementary schools, and high schools and universities and public colleges and enrichment programs and scientific research and art and theatre and… Well most things it seems
The library is one of the last free places in most cities.
