“If someone suggested the idea of public libraries now, they’d be considered insane. If you said you were going to take a little bit of money from every taxpayer, buy a whole load of books and music and games, stick them on a shelf and tell everyone, ‘These are yours to borrow and all you’ve got to do is bring them back,’ they’d be laughed out of government.”

Peter Collins, The Secret Life of Libraries (via jingc)

True. Publishers used to try to sue libraries, arguing that they were violating their copyright by letting people read books they hadn’t paid for. 

(via futurejournalismproject)

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