Havens for library lovers? Yes! I've only lived in small finnish town's of 15 000 people. Currently in Kuusamo, where father of irc (Jarkko Oikarinen) is from. IMHO, most of these town's are bleak APART from the libraries. Sure, selections are often small & dated, it's hard to find anything programming related that's not HTML, C# or java. It's not all bad - my current location has surprised me with a math book from 2017. Kindle is still essential for me to learn things. Maybe not everything like languages that have audio cd's on the back or painting that rely on the pictures. Technology related fields tends to move quickly. And it's cool to store documents of your own. All i need is a kindle and a notebook (one with pen and paper). One gripe i have with books was holding pages open with one hand and writing notes down in other. This is annoyance with small page books mostly. Ergonomics aside, i found surprising that some libraries have all these gizmos. I find it ridiculous, but where else could these urban crowds go to?

This week i had to do a movie review, i don't really watch film's or show's so i don't have netflix or anything. Library was a easy solution to this. And you get to chat with the clerk about the film while at it.

So while i find libraries filling with these ridiculous gizmos, i agree that there are more use cases for libraries than reading itself.