• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    sometimes i think about buying a printer and then i remember my library let’s me print 10 pages per day for free then it’s 15¢ for each additional page

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      11 months ago

      That’s a great perk that you can save by printing at the library. I don’t know that it’s feasible for most, or really anyone not on a school campus or living next door to a library. To the rest of us, I recommend a used laser printer for 50 dollars. There’s probably still enough toner in it to print 500-1000 more pages of text.

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        11 months ago

        idk for most people, a library is no further than the grocery store

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          11 months ago

          Without outing your location, where generally do you reside? I ask as now I’m genuinely curious if a library is no further than a grocery store for most people. I can imagine that being the case in some metropolitan areas–but I wonder about the suburban, and especially rural areas, both of which hold a heck of a lot of people, if it’s true for them. Heck, there’s 4 grocery stores in a 4 mile radius around me but neither of the two closest libraries would fall in that radius.

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            11 months ago

            most people in developed countries live near a metropolitan center and very few live rurally.

            i live in the burbs