egglorru replied to your post: I’ve been incredibly stubborn about refusing to...
Jesus absolute shit the San Antonio Public Library has like twenty branches and the card is like five bucks a year, HOW can a library charge $200?!?!?! It’s supposed to be an almost-free public service that maintains fines to pay for book replacements and card fees to maintain the cost of purchasing the cards themselves! A nonprofit organization! Your library better have like copies of ancient manuscripts that you can handle if you wear their provided gloves!
Yeah I’m getting a lot of comments along these lines. ^_^
The library is in an expensive Chicago suburb. All the libraries in the area are the same - if you’re in the district it’s free; otherwise, you can’t get a card outside the district or you have to pay like $150+. And some say you can’t get a card outside the district unless they’re the very closest library to you. They say that the cost of the card for people outside the district is equivalent to the amount of property tax that people inside the district pay toward the library.
No ancient manuscripts, but apparently they do let you check out stuff like iPads and GoPros and Fitbits and even an Intuos Draw tablet, and they have a 3D printer, and home delivery for people with disabilities, free/discounted admission to several Chicago area museums and zoos, free lynda.com account access (the equivalent of their premium membership which in itself would be $360/year), and there’s no limit to how many books/audiobooks/DVDs you can have out at a time, etc. I don’t know how much of this is typical because the last time I had a library card was during the “card catalog” days, but I definitely think it was a better choice than Kindle Unlimited!
And now that I know about the Lynda.com thing, I’m gonna be using the crap out of it! I have urgent needs, haha.