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The single most thing that a library could do to be of more use to the public is to stock more books, and from that respect, this does not sound that much of a nice place, they could have a lot, lot more books given the space, but they haven't.

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In my experience, the size of the collection in any given library building is never much of an issue as you can always order books for very low fees from any library in the country. Because of this, the other facilities are a much bigger value-add than a larger on-site collection.

But the other facilities are awesome, I take my child there almost every weekend to play in the play-area, read books and generally hang out.

They have board-games, 3d-printers, computers, and lots of things. It is a very social-space, not just a "be quiet and take books".

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