What if public libraries... - eviltoast
  • M500@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I would love this. Like another commenter said, after 10 the no talking rule gets rescinded and it turns into a cafe level of speech.

    I’d love to just read books with my wife at a library late at night.

    • tissek@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      Or simply have study areas where the silence is enforced. Rest of the premises just demands calm.

    • graymess@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You gotta pay to be at a coffee house. And sure, coffee isn’t terribly expensive and most places won’t kick you out even hours after you’ve bought your single cup of coffee, but non-Starbucks coffee shops are usually tiny and in some places hard to find.

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          A bookstore that also had a cafe in it. People would go there and buy a drink or whatever and read. The problem was after reading they didn’t have to buy the book. I read a ton of comic books for the price of a coke back then. A library set up like this would be pretty cool.

            • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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              1 year ago

              This is secretly one of my life goals: have (graphic novel) library that is also a café. Maybe when I’m retired (aka never) 👌

              • technomad@slrpnk.net
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                1 year ago

                I like it, and can it have a dedicated place to draw/create? What’s the auditory experience going to be like? You’re going to have to tell us more about this cafe you’re ‘never’ going to have XD

  • verdigris@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This concept is the “third space” – a social space other than work and home where people can congregate, socialize, and relax. Parks and libraries are some of the only remaining spaces in capitalism where people can be humans without paying for the privilege to exist by the minute.

    • xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      True, that is what the concept has become. But we need to remember that “third place” originally ment places of business like pubs, cafés, barbershops etc.

      Modern cities do need the kind of places you ment - not more malls or apple stores (think I read that it’s a new trend to have those resemble places you can casually chill so they can casually sell you their stuff).