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True, they're not perfect - yet, but give them some time. In a few years, we'll probably have services that do for books what NetFlix does for movies. All the ebooks, magazines, etc. you can read for one small monthly fee, yours to enjoy anywhere you want on a device that will probably cost less than $50. Will you still want to go to the library? What about the poor? A few hours of collecting cans will pay for all the reading they could possibly want. |
A library is not simply a collection of books. Open your eyes.
Also ask yourself this. What is the point of a museum when you can go on the internet and look at Monet all day long. Or travelling to other places when you can go on the internet and look at pictures? There is something to be said about the setting and physicality of enjoying something. Libraries are just as functional and necessary to enjoying the written language as a museum is to art or as travelling is to seeing the world. |
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A painting has to be experienced in person. You won't get the same thing at home. Of course, there are other reasons to go to the library, but for the average person who just wants to check out a book, why bother when you can do it with your own portable device? The need for socialization will still exist long after printed books no longer exist. Maybe the city should build a museum or planetarium instead? |
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Wow, your ideals about written text remind me of a book I read called "Fahrenheit 451". I sure hope that dosen't tanspire. |
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Wasn't that about the government burning books? I believe at some point in the future, books will make the jump from the printed page to some download format (PDF?). We've gone from clay tablets to papyrus to Gutenberg's press. This is just the next step. When will it happen? Maybe the next couple decades? |
Maybe the city should fix the roads or pay its bills instead of building the library?
It does have one of the lowest credit ratings in one of the states with one of the lowest credit ratings in a country that just had its credit rating lowered because of out-of-control spending. Spend Away! |
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Does San Diego have a 500 foot limit for all buildings?
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Yes, but they're military bases. |
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Do the Marines really need their own private beach? |
^Well, considering one of the Marines' primary missions is to conduct amphibious assaults, then, yes, they do need a beach.
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I think the in the future there may be "libraries", which won't have a terribly large number of paper books but will act as community centers with free public access to the internet, e-book readers, etc.
Cities won't really need large libraries nor extensive chains of local branches anymore, though, especially if there are other facilities like community or rec centers with space to absorb their functions. Perhaps cities should at least keep their grand old historic main library if they have one and downsize the actual library space while turning the rest into something else, in the vein of the cities that were wise enough to preserve their fabulous old train stations but did not delude themselves into thinking that a considerable people would continue to arrive by train at them and knew to turn them into something else. The original goal of free access to information has not died out though. A person could for free "check out" an e-book but only access this otherwise paid content from the confines of the library, on the library's secure e-book reader device which would not allow piracy of the materials. Obviously most people would simply buy the content on their own device so this would not harm book publishers no more than lending a small number of dead tree copies of their materials does now. Generally a service to children and the poor, but there are always times when ordinary people might need to look up a technical manual or academic journals which you don't want to go out and buy. |
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Yeah, basically same concept, but yeah. A new central library for this city is a dream come true.:banana: |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2...d-new-library/ so what will become of that derelict building that used to be the Central Library. |
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