Sentences with phrase «simply public borrowing»

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While many school districts and libraries have a policy honoring parents» wishes that their own children be given alternate assignments for class readings that conflict with their morals or religious beliefs, in far too many instances schools cave in to parental outrage and simply remove a book from class reading lists; when the angry mob gets loud enough or politicians up for re-election on the «family values» ticket need to make some noise, they've even resorted to pulling the access to the book, removing it from school and public libraries and classroom borrow shelves.

While paying to stream movies or music seems like a commonplace phenomenon, readers who are accustomed to simply borrowing a book are used to getting it free from their public libraries.

As more and more readers explore digital reading, they are turning to their public libraries and finding that the titles simply aren't available for borrowing.

And second, because I've also hit that wall where books that I want to borrow are either on long waiting lists (although here in Brooklyn, I haven't hit waiting lists quite as long as the 20 + that are cited for the New York Public Library in the article) or, more often, are simply not available at all.