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Does anyone still go to the library to rent out books? I like the library and I enjoy renting them, something about the smell, the plastic cover and the fact that so many others have read the same book.
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I've found some really really good books via the library system. Once I rented a book for women (it was literary subtitled on the cover "literature for women") and to this day it's one of the best finds I've ever made. I wrote one of the authors who is now a professor at a Canadian University and we remain close correspondents.

As far as the whole "how many people have read this book" I think that really hits me when I buy a book from a book fair and I find an old library record or bookmark and I begin to think about the first owner who received the book on their birthday and how much the person who bought it for them thought they'd love and cherish it- only for them to probably discard or lose it. Maybe even the previous owner died.

I once leafed through an old math text book dated 1981 and it was just overwhelming. I imagined the last class just dying to break for summer or fall and throwing that book around and protesting to their teacher nobody would find any value in such a text. I used that book as a prop in a film and use it to this day. I still leaf through it, for no particular reason really- maybe just to dream.
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