why buy a book when you can join a library
Being available for sexual relationships with various people is preferable to committing oneself to a single partner.
noun
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
She went to exchange her books at her local library.
Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]
Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
A small library of books has been written on the subject.
My library is not a single beast but a composite of many others, a fantastic animal made up of the several libraries built and then abandoned, over and over again, throughout my life. I can’t remember a time in which I didn’t have a library of some sort. The present one is a sort of multilayered autobiography, each book holding the moment in which I opened it for the first time.
An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library.
A room dedicated to storing books.