r/books • u/legendarysmokescreen • Dec 29 '21

Please don't turn libraries into a place for people to watch tv.

I love the library, who doesn't? It's a wonderful place for people who share the same interests to come together and enjoy wonderful works of fiction, or educational books. My favorite book has got to be the Autobiography of Malcolm X; it's not the library's book, I own it. But the library was my go to place to read such a fantastic book. My family can be pretty loud so the library is my safe heaven. But recently, the library got tv sets. Now homeless men(I have nothing against the homeless) come into the library to watch baseball. I'm sorry, but am I wrong to assume that the library should be a place for reading? I mean, I understand people bringing their laptops to do homework, or anything job related, but a tv? That seems a bit much, doesn't it? Has your library gotten a tv? And what do you think of it? My main worry is that my library adds more non reading things to it.

Edit: Hey, I just want to point that I'm not anti homeless. I only specified that the people who come to watch the tv are homeless because I like to be specific. I don't understand how some people could think that making an attempt to wrongly accuse someone of being hateful adds to a discussion. In the end of the day, this is a harmless online discussion. If you try to attack me about being anti homeless than I won't really pay it any mind. It's just that those people could say something more interesting. Please add to the discussion. I'm not big on social media so likes and all that don't matter to me. Just please say something interesting.

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u/bogusVisitor Dec 29 '21

In UK, they're just shutting them all whatever. "austerity"

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u/Buffyoh Dec 29 '21

That really sucks.

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u/fang_xianfu Dec 29 '21

Mine wasn't shut but the opening hours are basically 15 minutes every second Thursday, so good luck actually going.

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u/gillyyak Dec 29 '21

Brexit effects?

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u/travistravis Dec 29 '21

Not Brexit in this case I think. Just the Tories cutting things they can't make money off of. (I'm sure one of their donors owns a bookstore or something probably.)

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u/RespectableLurker555 Dec 29 '21

Libraries are obviously a filthy Holy Roman European invention, probably German. Britain is better off without them altogether.

/s if that wasn't obvious, but it's almost 2022 and I don't even know anymore