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Re:“The books will stop working.” by inscionent on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:28PM (#20298371)
The one in Washington DC is now an Apple store.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by djsumdog on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:31PM (#20298391)
Wow ... that's .. is that irony? I don't even know.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by tomxor on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:41PM (#20298507)
It's straight up dystopian that's what it is.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by matwood on Thursday June 27, 2019 @04:40PM (#20298501)
The yearly ALA (American Library Association) conference was in the conference center across the street from that library last weekend. I wonder how many noticed the metaphor to what is happening to libraries in general?
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by blakesterz on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:15PM (#20298844)
Ha! Walked by it when I was there, I thought the same thing.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by GlenTheMachine on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:30PM (#20298996)
To be fair, it’s not like DC doesn’t have public libraries. Also, the original DC Carnegie building sits on some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by kbenson on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:34PM (#20299552)
What better way to signal the importance of libraries than to have one on that expensive real estate?

Or what better way to signal a change in values than to stop having one on that same real estate.

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Re:“The books will stop working.” by ciscoriordan on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:54PM (#20299711)
They moved due to overcrowding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington....

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Re:“The books will stop working.” by evanb on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:09PM (#20299341)
Not the one in Mount Pleasant!
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