Whenever there's a new book I want to read I always check to see if I can borrow it with my library app. If it's a book about Bitcoin or economic issues (of the type us Bitcoiners are interested in anyway) it is never available.

I can forgive Bitcoin books not being available as most of them are very new. I was just recommended a book that came out in 2007 that has 3200 reviews on Amazon about neoliberalism that I would expect to be available in an unbiased library system.

There's a lot of headlines about LGBT books being banned (all part of the media's divisive agenda no doubt), but what about these other books that are effectively shadow banned from libraries? Who is making the decision not to offer them?

I find it hard to believe that a book that's been out for 16 years doesn't have one copy available in the library system of the 8th largest city in America.

That said, I don't hate libraries and I still think they are a net good even if there is some censorship.

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Have you check BitTorrent? It’s not appreciative of intellectual property unfortunately, (shouldn’t there be a way of doing that without getting raped along with the creator by a publisher) but it’s pretty effective.

I don't like to torrent. Too big of a security and privacy risk.

I hear you. I can recommend putting a solid VPN on your router, not your computer. This is an important distinction because some torrent clients don’t play nice with routing tables, but the router gives no choice in the matter. Azirevpn accepts Bitcoin and Monero! Be free!

Still slogging through these…

Same here. I’m sure there is a request form… I’ll have to look that up for my location