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I love the library and will frequently check out books. I much prefer physical books to digital books. There's something satisfying about holding a book, opening up the cover, flipping the page, etc.

A few areas for improvement:

- Most of the libraries I frequent have very slow wifi, but this may be on purpose.

- Most digital library catalogs have terrible UIs (broken back buttons, poor search results, etc.) They work, but they're not fun to use.

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> - Most digital library catalogs have terrible UIs (broken back buttons, poor search results, etc.) They work, but they're not fun to use.

Talk to your librarians! In my experience, they welcome feedback, including of this sort. Sometimes the response is "all the systems suck, and this one is the best compromise we could find between suckiness and cost" (it always has been for me), but it's also a good way to get involved in efforts to fix it (for example, UI tests for proposed new systems).

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