Your comment made me sad to read. I don't really feel like that's a fair take at all.
I love libraries and the experience they provide. These memories are core to who I am today.
For me this is about access. I want every kid who doesn't live near a library or who's parents don't have the time to take them there to have something more than nothing.
I don't think that we can make it remote without taking a lot of the magic out of it. But I don't think it's a bad idea to talk about what we might do to try.
I don’t think that’s a fair portrayal of it. Rather, it’s a matter of observing that people are using the digital more because of certain advantages it has, and trying to think up ways of mitigating its disadvantages.
For a similar sort of thing, take the example of paper versus digital Bibles. For the last couple of hundred years until recently, almost everyone who cared about the Bible would have what I call a primary Bible; this helps immensely with memory and comprehension, especially spatial. Recently, many people have shifted to digital Bibles. I think this is terrible; very little software even pretends to be designed for reading (study is the typical focus, not that they do that well either), and none of it is; so I say no Bible software is suitable for use as a primary Bible. So I’ve been planning Bible software for the last few years, to answer the situation by seeking to get the best of both worlds, in significant part so that people that insist on eschewing the paper can have a less harmful option—though I think that it’s possible to reach a stage where I personally would switch from my increasingly-decrepit paper RSV.
The fact of the matter is that we have a habit of turning analogue experiences into half-hearted digital experiences, implementing the simple parts but ignoring the hard parts. Don’t complain because people are seeking to digitise more of the analogue experience, but rejoice when people contemplate the hard parts.
I love libraries and the experience they provide. These memories are core to who I am today.
For me this is about access. I want every kid who doesn't live near a library or who's parents don't have the time to take them there to have something more than nothing.
I don't think that we can make it remote without taking a lot of the magic out of it. But I don't think it's a bad idea to talk about what we might do to try.