/lit/ - Literature

Used to go to this library on the regular, it is pretty big so you can easily evade the homeless stuff. And has a great rare books section with some niche stuff that is impossible to find elsewhere for less than like 100 bucks. Used to chill in there and read this dope ass Swiss author’s short stories. Thanks for the reminder, maybe I’ll hit it up this week and read a few stories.

>hideout

They're shelters now

>>21672590
Convince me not to become homeless and live in a library. Sounds pretty great tbqh.

>>21672590
>only problem is that it's a homeless hideout
>problem
I just give the guy 20 dollars

>tfw the book wolves are ravenous again

>>21672590
hell yeah I've recently discovered libraries too, I take my books and go though because I don't want people to think I'm a bum

>>21672590
Shit architecture desu. The uni library I go to has an old part that they built some cancerous growth onto, but the old part is basically just a massive reading room. Very high ceilings, ornamented, mandatory silence with white noise to drown out the typing of mongrels. I love reading there.

>>21675029
>sleepytime corner's forcefield is still holding

>>21675001
You could just buy a book at indigo for that much

>>21672590
I live in a small town that was once an industry powerhouse but has since fallen to ruin. As a result, our only public library is tiny and sterile, not at all comfy. The pubs are comfy as shit doe.

I went on a field trip to this exact library when I was in highschool.

I had my first bi encounter in this library. Needlessly to say it was not the last!

>>21675116
I know you're waiting for someone to ask so go on and tell it

>>21675116
requesting you don't tell it

>>21672590
>wokeism ruined the one nice thing we had in society
>people wonder why i vote republican

The library in my town has a small section for our state's football team

>>21675153
this

>>21675238
it's ok that liberals let the drug cartels flood the country with heroin and make more useless hobos every day because you are a heckin racist chud

>>21675254
>sure, biden let the chinese flood the country with fentanyl, crashed the economy, debased the currency into toilet paper, killed 6 million chickens so eggs are now $40/dozen, and turned ohio and pennsylvania into chernobyl, but orange man said mean things on twitter

operator

>>21672590
I think the university library spoiled me. After graduating, I went to check out the city libraries and they're not really endless nor comfy.

>>21675458
no asiancels tho

>>21675131
She licked my penis I licked her penis you know just the standard bullshit

>>21675254
Fuel for the machine

>>21672590
fucking dweeb

>>21672590
>Comfy couches to sleep on
>Water fountains
>Bathrooms stalls all have needle disposals so you can feel like a classy guy when you shoot up
Yeah, I'm thinking libraries are based.

>>21672590
Librarian here, reminder that if you appreciate the service do try to make regular use of it- by keeping our registration and loan numbers up you’re ensuring that we will continue to receive funding and resources. The main reasons why public services get axed is because people simply don’t make the most of them

>>21676092
But by loaning books from you instead of buying them I'm also shitting on bookshops and authors.

>>21675458
British Library has the right system. Make people register with name and address for a reader's card, then ban non cardholders from entry. Still free.

>>21672590
In the 21st century libraries are just homeless shelters. I stopped going after I found a bum masturbating in one of the aisles for a second time.

>>21676092
Library visitor here, I check out a random book once a week and cum inside it. I then return it in the deposit box. You will never find me.

>>21676122
>for a second time
made me laugh

>>21676122
and yet you still come to 4chan

>>21672590
I have never once seen a homeless person in a library

>>21676118
Do you think libraries just get books for free without purchasing them?

>>21676128
>be me, discharging books
>come across one with dried cum sticking the pages together
>check on the system who it was last issued to
>add a replacement charge onto your account
And it’s as easy as that. I once came across a Murakami book that someone had slipped some dried flowers between the pages, so that kind of thing makes up for it anyways.

>>21676745
>Do you think libraries just get books for free without purchasing them?
libraries buy up a bunch of shitty woke books and crap like "milk and honey" by that gas station toilet whore, which artificially boosts the sales numbers on whatever abominable schlock the cabal wants to push. libraries are a destructive force to the world.

>>21676122
mine isnt

>>21677393
>nonono people can’t enjoy things I don’t enjoy
At least they’re reading. Given the declining literacy rates we should be try and be happy about that at least. I often think that if I ever become wealthy, like lottery wealthy, I’d start an adult literacy program. In that exceedingly unlikely set of circumstances, I wouldn’t care if they chose to start with schlock so long as it helps improve their general literacy (and maybe I could eventually steer them to something better).

>>21677432
>why do you care that politically obsessed troon lovers are distorting literary demand and shifting the industry towards the mass publishment of abhorrent content for danger haired staple-faces
because i enjoy reading books

>>21677432
I would prefer that they read nothing at all than that they read that trash. They create a market which would be better off not existing.

>>21677463
I’m with you dude, I’m just trying to look on the bright side.
>>21677490
This seems naive to me. People sell hard drugs because there are people out there who want to consume them. Do I like it? No, of course not, but to deny that a demand exists is akin to burying one’s head in the sand. Things are as they are, we just have to deal with as best we’re capable.
>cope
>yeah, I’m trying

>>21676122
well you're not much help are you. you could at least offer him a reach-through the book shelf in your best girly voice. that's on every man's bucket list.

Used to love this library when I was a kid, I'd always pester my dad to go here. Now the entire first floor and a lot of the open areas of other floors have just been completely taken over by crackhead homeless subhumans

>>21677586
drugs give them a high. with books normies read and "like" whatever they're told to read and like. it creates artificial demand for schlocky woke rags. only so many books are published each year. for every woke rag that gets pushed through, that's one less potentially good book that gets published. this is actively harming readers.

>>21677665
Listen, we’re not going to agree on this and I can accept that but please try and look at your argument from the other side:
>people read and like what they’re told to read and like
>I dislike what they’re told to read and like, so they should be restricted to exclusively reading things that I tell them to read and like

Libraries used to be good. Now they are for homeless meth tweakers jerking off and retards too stupid to know how to pirate books.

During lockdowns my city voted to spend another gazillion dollars on both libraries and public schools
These people can't recognize opportunity when it's staring in their faces. The internet has made these old things (which have all become completely corrupted) obsolete, but nooo we have to go on with them

>tfw live in a small town just big enough to have a great library and no fucking hobos
still feels good bros.

>>21675315
that sounds like a bunch of deflection bub. hard drugs come in through the southern border, that's a fact. should've built that wall. leaving the border completely undefended isn't helping the situation

>>21672590
Libraries are an obsolete concept. Thanks to PCs and the Internet you can have any book ever written saved in your personal digital library, for free (imagine paying for books lol).

>>21675047
The book won't come with a friendly librarian and a side of homeless people persons. So what's even the point?

>>21677586
Yes and if there were any justice in this world we would "deal with" drug dealers by executing them. You're just a stupid lolbert: "well if da market is dere..."

>>21675315
>and turned ohio and pennsylvania into chernobyl
qrd??

>>21675238
Wake me up when kicking the homeless people out of libraries is something republicans actually talk about.

>>21672590
>reading in a room with other people

>>21677393
Speaking as an author whose work is in public libraries i can tell you they pay and pay well. I love getting library sales because
1: they pay better than the online retailers
2: you can potentially reach hundreds of readers over the time period the book is in the library.

I'll take every library sale i can get.

>>21677907
Yeah and if my aunt had balls she’d be my uncle. Get real you fucking moron, things are as they are. Deal with it or tilt at windmills, not my problem.

>>21678451
>Oy vey goy, you could never have an improved society, you should be HAPPY that drug dealers are on every corner and niggers are invading your country
Getting real sick of your shit, shlomo

>>21679219
You have to pick your battles little man. I’m not sure who you’re trying to fool anyway: we both know full well the extent of your activism will never extend beyond the reach of your keyboard.