The Internet Encourages Stupidty... again...
Right... check this...
A News Story About a Stupid Fucking Idea
Ok... there's an institution that already does this. You don't have to send the books through the post, or wait for them to arrive through the letter box (or, more likely, get one of those cards which mean you have to go to the Post Office at the crack of dawn). You can actually see the book before you decide you want it, flick through it, read a few pages to see if it clicks with you. There are people there - real live people! - who will chat to you, suggest other things, listen to stories about your gammy leg, and how the weather's turning. And get this... its fucking free.
Your local public library will not charge you a tenner a year. Please support my campaign to find the people responsible for this new "first online cooperative library", and to take them to their local public library. Watch them crumble, as they realise their super and smashing, Pimms-fueled, arrogant middle-class fucking idea is actually a load of unneccesary bollocks, which only got off the ground 'cos it involved that panacea of communications media, the Internet. Twats.
Pete
posted by Pisco Sour Hour @ 11:45 AM
2 Comments:
Actually I rather like Pimms....
but I reckon the internet works as a way of supporting things - it shouldn't substitute them. For example there's every reason to have an online catalogue for your library - and even to connect different libraries together - but that shouldn't stop you being able to go to the library and look at the book or other highly useful reference material in the flesh.
Don't get me wrong - public libraries should be supplementing the services we offer using the potential of the Internet. What kills me about this scheme though is that some dude is trying to make cash by offering something THAT ALREADY EXISTS... FOR FREE!!! Grrrr... just 'cos its housed on the Internet you'll get idiots going "oh - what a great idea, why did no one think of it before?". They did mate... over 150 freaking years ago!!
Good god I need a beer. Or a Pimms.
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