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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Old books
  • Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:32:12 -0700


Something about this books thread has been nagging at me and I finally got it.

A substantial percentage of us on this homesteading list treasure books and have large, personal libraries. Some of us even think of our book walls as insulation. I did a quick calculation and figured that, even with small rooms and an average-over-the-years of ten bucks per book, such a wall could easily represent ten thousand dollars.

Now then. Consider all those people who love to read but can't afford even a portion of that expenditure for books.

Then consider that public libraries fill that need.

Then consider that public libraries, Andrew Carnegie notwithstanding, are examples of socialism, a condition much decried here.




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