

As for the downloading and the Kindle, the interface was so bad that I gave up - it is a better use of time just to buy stuff on Amazon and discard the books that aren’t all that good. There was a table with recommended books like the ones you highlight but it didn’t seem to me that anyone had taken a book out of that library since it was built.

The place smelled of urine and cigarettes.

Besides the librarian the only people inside were vagrants who were either taking a snooze or playing video games on the computers. The library is in a brand new building, on the ground floor of a residential high rise, that was probably donated by a developer for air rights. Here in NYC I stopped into my local library for the first time in a decade because someone told me that you could access books electronically on Kindle for free but my library card did not have whatever chip was necessary to do that. I wouldn’t worry about the local library.
