Public library ebooks are becoming a thing of the past.
Libby is bleeding the libraries to death, sucking tax money straight to private equity. (KKR owns it).
For that cost, you get very little, beyond hockey-playing-vampire romance novels and other dumb bestsellers.
If your experience with Libby is still good:
1) You live in one of the few remaining cities in the US with a well-funded library
2) It won’t last. Libby is a parasite that’s indifferent to its host’s long-term survival 🧵
dB Cooper
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