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A friend of mine shared this receipt from her local library which shows how much money she's saved by using it.
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this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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It’s the price of the books she would have bought otherwise.
But she wouldn’t have?
Before Netflix I wasn’t buying hundreds of DVDs per year. It doesn’t make sense to claim that use of a service, even a free one, constitutes “savings” based on hypothetical behavior where you would have bought all the content individually at list price.
This person has read 40 books. They must love those books so much that they would have definitely bought them if this library didn't exist. It's not saving per se, but it's money that could have been spent. They got the books they love and they didn't spend the money. Win win, right?
Why does everyone assume books equals novels. The books loaned might have been text books or even journals.
Children's books mostly.