[jmcqk6]

Libraries also do a lot more than just provide books. $35 per resident per year for everything that libraries do provide is forking cheap, and we would be greatly impoverished if they were to disappear.

[flumes_whims_]

Unless I am misreading the GP, that is $35 per resident on purchasing books. The amount for everything would be $233 per resident.

[rahimnathwani]

The $35 is just the 15% spent on collections.

The total is $235 per resident per year.

But my point above wasn't about whether that number is high or low. It's that the price of books is paid by us, even it's funneled through taxes and librarians.