Libraries suck

Hello trolls,

I was walking through Birmingham the other day and walked past the construction site for the new "Library of Birmingham". The design of the proposed building does look impressive, but I wonder will anybody actually use it? The only library I've used in the past 5 years is the one at University, and I don't really see the point in spending £193 million on a library. Especially now I think the classic version of a library will soon become obsolete, with the internet providing the information we need for research, which is more up to date and more readily available. If you're going to make the point that "how can poor kids afford to read books without a library?", then that's what school libraries are for. And anyway, with £193million, you  could buy almost 1.75million Kindles. It would be more cost effective, and more fun and practical, to give every school child in Birmingham a Kindle then to invest it in this stupid building. And anyway, why should government fund libraries anyway? If there was a public demand to rent books, then a private company would have done it, and probably much better (like a LOVEfilm for books). These companies might even exist if the government stops it monopoly on book lending.  And if we cared about the poor so much, why doesn't the government instead not take £190 from every man, woman and child who lives in Birmingham, and allows them to instead spend it on things they actually want. Like food.