Library

I have just sorted out a number of books to go back to the library in the morning and it has just hit me that with the threat of closure hanging like the sword of Damacles over their future how very sad it will be when it happens.
I have used the libraries since my father used to take me, as a very small girl, with him every Saturday afternoon to get some books for the coming week.  Over the years I learned to use books for pleasure and for reference and to value quietness (as libraries were quiet in those days!) and we would come home with a bag full of books feeling very chilled - as the young say nowadays.
The Internet has taken the place of Reference books and the new Kindle (??) might well take the place of
paper books in the future.   I can only imagine how costly the libraries must be to run but there are certainly MANY things I would close to save money than our libraries.