From Cat McGuire: The video below reports a very ominous development going on with libraries. Physical checkout of books is becoming increasingly difficult.  “EmergencyTemporary Access Service” began in August “because Corona,” with sole access to books now widely offered only online via Google Books’ vast database (criticized for the many flaws made during their digitization process.)  When is the … Continue reading It’s now hard to check real books out of our libraries (so that you have to turn to Google Books)