>Maybe we should. These days, public libraries are little more than homeless shelters.
Odd, I've been in plenty of public libraries, and I've been able to access a number of useful services in them, and none have been homeless shelters, either literally or figuratively.
> and printed books are largely irrelevant in today's world anyway
No they're not, no more than movies, television, radio, or any other form of media that exists despite digital media.
Maybe your personal, limited experience doesn't scale up to a general view of human culture as well as you think it does.
Odd, I've been in plenty of public libraries, and I've been able to access a number of useful services in them, and none have been homeless shelters, either literally or figuratively.
> and printed books are largely irrelevant in today's world anyway
No they're not, no more than movies, television, radio, or any other form of media that exists despite digital media.
Maybe your personal, limited experience doesn't scale up to a general view of human culture as well as you think it does.