<p>Hi CC,
I love reading, and in the town I am from, we had a huge library. Lively with an enthusiastic and informative staff, new books as soon as they come out, and thousands of thousands of books to choose from.
I just moved away from that town about a year ago, and I have tried to find another good library nearby, and the nearest ones are the total opposite of what I was used to with my other library: only a few bookshelves, an uninformative and unhelpful staff, and it is deserted. There is a Barnes&Noble, but I cannot bring books home without buying it. Is there anyone I can inform about this that can change the library? Is there any other place I can go to read books at home, online or in person? </p>
<p>there are a lot of free books on the internet …</p>
<p>Can’t help you on the with whom to talk matter, but some resources for finding books:</p>
<p>Project Gutenburg offers free (legal) eBooks… downloadable or viewable in a web browser. These are usually going to be older books because they are public domain.</p>
<p>Google Books also has scans of public domain books online, as does The Internet Archive.</p>
<p>You can see if there’s a Little Free Library close to you <a href=“http://littlefreelibrary.org/[/url]”>http://littlefreelibrary.org/</a></p>
<p>Check out your school’s library.</p>
<p>Also, the standard Amazon, AbeBooks, etc for buying online.</p>
<p>Don’t let your libraries atmosphere and service stop you from checking out books, though. Chances are there are still at least dozens of interesting reads on their shelves. I say this as a person from a town of 3k people with a very small, empty library.</p>
<p>Happy reading!</p>
<p>Hopefully the library is part of a larger system and can order in books for you. Have you asked about that?</p>
<p>Thank you so much! I really need this, and I appreciate you spending the time to help me.
You feel my pain LAMuniv, thanks haha</p>
<p>Even when I ask the library to order from other libraries, it takes about 4 months, and by then I’ve gonne to Barnes and Noble haha</p>
<p>Four months is crazy! Start ordering books now, one or two a week…in three or four months you should be getting a steady stream… I wonder if there is any sort of community center or the office at your school where you could post your reading interests and offer to trade or ask to borrow books. My thought is that teachers, etc. would be more than happy to lend you books. I know I would!</p>
<p>Sdgal2,
I do borrow books from my teachers a lot an they enjoy letting me read them. I don’t know if there is a community center near me. As for the school office, they don’t offer something like that, but if I wanted to start that, who would I go to? The counselor? Student council?? I really like the idea. </p>
<p>Ah, you beat me to it, @LAMuniv! Nice job.</p>
<p>@Apollo11 thanks, although I feel like I need to point out that I’m not stupid and I know that it should have been “library’s”, not “libraries”… this is what happens when I’m tired/not thinking :P</p>
<p>@LAMuniv
Whoops, I’m dumb, since I didn’t catch that. Anyway, I make typos here all the time, but it doesn’t seem to faze all of the other HSLers</p>