> Check out a book

Not many of those left in my local libraries. They downsized to popular fiction and a rack of magazines to introduce more sofas and space for charity cake stalls. And "mindful colouring-in" if you're around for the 4.5 days of the week that they're open.

Libraries threw away the one thing that made them unique, curated knowledge, in order to compete with Starbucks as a "third space".