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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Public Libraries were the original Freemium model. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Free to read all you want in-house, but if you want to take some home, you gotta pony up for that card.

Fortunately the card was usually cheap.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where I live, it's free for school children and people on welfare etc. For university students it's 5€ a year, for adults it's 10€.

So really not a lot, but you also get access to a lot of other online services for free (encyclopedia, streaming service for older and arthouse films, magazines etc.)

Late fees are just there to keep you from keeping a book or whatever for long periods of time, because then other wouldn't be able to read them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

My library charges 1€ initially to cover for the cost of the card, then it’s free to use no matter what income, age,…