SimonCelsa wrote:Libraries are ace, don't shut them. Just my deeply intellectual opinion on the current thread.
This opinion may be derived from an element of frugality, however it is also that I don't like wastefulness. If I'd have bought all the kids books, DIY repair books, holiday idea books etc etc then my house would be even more full of 'trash' than it already is.
Having said that, out of myself, the wife & four kids I think it is only me who actually visits frequently.....the wife/youths/young adults only go to please their Victorian Dad & a lot less so now that their childhood joie de vivre is morphing into teenage angst.
But I still think they should remain open. I can remember quite well the library in Erith, Kent as a kid (so it must have been fairly impressive) & my current local one in Inverness is equally inspiring. Long may they survive,
All the best, Simon
I was in Inverness in 2005, visited a bookshop in an old church, is it still there?