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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

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.