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Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Audiobooks and online reading were the stories of the year at Shetland Library, which noticed a change of literary habits during the pandemic. With the library closed for a time during lockdown, borrowers turned in larger numbers to eBooks and audiobooks to maintain their reading. The library’s most borrowed list shows the top spot for ‘physical loans’ in adult fiction went to Jojo Moyes’ The Giver of Stars, a novel about packhorse librarians in America. When ebo...

>> we have to make this clear, america is not greece. america has no history of violent street demonstrations on a mass level. we're wanot facing a depression. they had a general strike. we don't have general strikes in the united states but there are some worrying, distant echos. you remember about a year ago at the height of the banker bonus outrage, the fciu bussed in some very, very angry people to the private homes of bankers. that's an ugly, distant echo, if you like. and there is a parallel in the debt situation of greece and some states in america. greece is bankrupt. it's out of money...