#not that they'll even care because it was just a trend/fad for them

[prettypangolins]

Yeah I'm not gonna get over the z-libray thing because:

where I live the local council it a Tory-rotted, bankrupt mess, and they shouldn't be in control of what books people can/can't access

I simply don't have the income to buy all the books I'd like (I usually buy paper copies of things I really enjoyed via uk dot bookshop dot org)

all the requests I've made to the library to buy books I want to read have been rejected

so much shit in the library is OLD and outdated

I live in a 'rural town'. Like... my options are the shitty council library I can't get to due to accessability issues, or, in the town 30 minutes away, a Waterstones I can't actually get to due to accessability issues

academic articles are hard to access, you need a university account or to pay a fee or whatever, and learning shouldn't be behind a paywall?????

I just want to LEARN, I don't want to be at the mercy of what the local council has deemed acceptable to stock (which doesn't include journals or online access to articles)

just seriously, the options are so fucking limited and z-library was such a good place to go when nowhere else had the goods