BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 00:54:00
That public libraries aren't supported in the way of the good old fashioned public library. you could go into borrow books and leave and read them at home and bring them back, and that somehow replacing that with screens and places to work and the like is is an adequate replacement. i think that's a real tragedy. it would also be a tragedy to lose bookshops. bookshops are where people of all ages, kids come in, young families come in, people come in off to school. we don't require anybody to pay to come in or any obligation to buy. they're real social spaces and they are places of discovery. b...