Ok, but the equivalent for me was in the very early 1980s and I lived in an English village outside a small market town. Their library certainly didn't have any current in-depth book on the computing topics I was interested in. I recall coming across the term "cybernetics" in some tome from the 1950s that was about all they had and being completely unable to connect it to the microcomputers that I was fascinated by.

Probably it would have been possible to get something via inter-library loan, but I would have been 9 or 10, didn't know this was possible and didn't think to ask. The handful of topical books I obtained from parents and schoolfriends was a far cry from just scrolling on your phone to the information you want.

It's not better in every way. But it is better in some ways.

Even my small town in south GA had the latest magazines or you could go the bookstore. Like you said the inter library loan was a thing if you knew about it.