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   Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 (migueldeicaza@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 10:28:20 JST Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs whoa! I just signed up and they take my library card!

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     CM Thiede (cmthiede@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 22:16:28 JST CM Thiede

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Phil Greer

     @pgreer @thomasfuchs and slowly eats away at their slim budget as more people use it instead of visiting the actual library. The cost continues to go up. Until, you guessed it, no more budget to archive a physical collection for the local community. Death by 1000 conveniences.

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     Phil Greer (pgreer@genomic.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 22:16:29 JST Phil Greer

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs

     Free for you, not for the library.

     The same is true for hoopla and libby/overdrive if your library provides access to them.

     Kanopy, hoopla, and libby make a ton of money from the libraries.

     https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/s/Nkpnp4cPrH

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     tinker｡✧𓃦˚☽wolf (ishe@cupoftea.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 01:25:53 JST tinker｡✧𓃦˚☽wolf

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Phil Greer

     @pgreer @thomasfuchs That's so unfortunate... I wonder how much each library has to pay per month... Might be a good way to determine a monetary goal for donations.

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     Phil Greer (pgreer@genomic.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 02:16:01 JST Phil Greer

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • CM Thiede

     @thomasfuchs @cmthiede

     Republicans in the USA, at all levels of government, want to refund all public goods (schools, libraries, etc). That is not up for debate. Library budgets are often the first cuts when implementing austerity measures.

     https://www.salon.com/2023/04/13/defunding-public-libraries-republicans-on-reading-goes-nuclear/

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     Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 04:31:50 JST Eliot Lash

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • Phil Greer
     • CM Thiede

     @thomasfuchs @pgreer @cmthiede They wouldn't add these services if they didn't want people to use them. Many libraries have a "friends of the library" nonprofit organization you can join to directly support your local library financially too. We joined ours and it also provides a discount to buy used books.

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     Jonathan Doughty (jwd630@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 04:32:06 JST Jonathan Doughty

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs OO, thanks. My local library system dropped Kanopy a while ago. However another library I use that permits reciprocal membership *does* still enable Kanopy. So I just switched my library affiliation to that one.

     You can never belong to too many libraries

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     Andrew Leahey (andrew@esq.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 09:18:26 JST Andrew Leahey

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • John Siracusa

     @thomasfuchs @siracusa

     I 100% thought this post was going to end with something like "its called BOOKS you dweebs."

     Glad to find out about Kanopy.

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     Andrew Leahey (andrew@esq.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Dec-2025 11:46:37 JST Andrew Leahey

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • John Siracusa

     @thomasfuchs @siracusa

     Ads for … other books? Or like magazine back page style?