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My father tells stories of living in Las Vegas in the late 70s when the local public library already provided this service for free to all patrons.
Instead we now promote all possible services to the doorstep. Delivery people get paid minimum wage doing this kind of ship. Customers don’t even see the cost accumulated of all those delivery services.
All this so that everyone stays at home and never ever meet people living next door, or even worse, stand in a line for two minutes to checkout books and have to go through the purgatory of smiling to the librarians working there.
I hate it so so much. I hate that other privileged white software dev as I am continuously stumble upon such ideas and see them as great, when it kills communities even more.
Congratulations OP. If you could find a way to deliver books for rent in small towns of Tier2/3 cities where there are no proper libraries then you solve problems like 'I don't have access to a proper library in my city'[1] posted on my problem validation platform. You're still welcomed to explain how Lurebees solves their problem. [1] https://needgap.com/problems/33-i-dont-have-access-to-a-prop... (Disclaimer: I cre…
Enough. Please stop spamming your site on every tangential thread.
Everyone shares their experience, subjective/objective opinions on OT here on HN and I did the same. Today there were several solutions related to the problems in my platform .
Sometimes months go by where I never shared the platform and sometimes there are days like this when I can share something which I felt was valuable to OP.
I'm sorry that you felt it to spammy, I'll limit my shares.
So basically a (soon to be VC funded) Uber-like gig economy delivery app for renting books? For $7 it's a service only for the rich, while also putting gig workers at risk.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm just tired of seeing another rentierist middleman app that dresses up a simple protocol and exploits the working class.
"Exploitation, now available from your local library!"
Part of the pleasure is simply going there and shuffling through books. I think many of us will have such fond memories as children. Instead we now promote all possible services to the doorstep. Delivery people get paid minimum wage doing this kind of ship. Customers don’t even see the cost accumulated of all those delivery services. All this so that everyone stays at home and never ever meet people living next door,…
Most libraries are only offering curbside pickup right now in an effort to protect the staff.
Part of the pleasure is simply going there and shuffling through books. I think many of us will have such fond memories as children. Instead we now promote all possible services to the doorstep. Delivery people get paid minimum wage doing this kind of ship. Customers don’t even see the cost accumulated of all those delivery services. All this so that everyone stays at home and never ever meet people living next door,…
The new "libraries of the future" that are being built tend to hide most of the books in closed stacks. You kind of already have to know what you are looking for, so that you can put in a request to have the book brought from the stacks to the reservation shelf.
Even when libraries these days are intentionally being built as a space for the community to meet (like Helsinki’s Oodi library), books are a pretty small part of their overall mission.
> 4. By placing order with Lurebees, you agree to have library books picked up by Lurebees drivers and deliver to your house address. So basically a (soon to be VC funded) Uber-like gig economy delivery app for renting books? For $7 it's a service only for the rich, while also putting gig workers at risk. I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm just tired of seeing another rentierist middleman app that dresses up a…
I'm very sorry about your feeling on middleman. As for our drivers, they have the ability to make significant amount of money from one library pickup. For example, if there are 20 orders to be picked from one library this can generate significant amount of pay in one library stop.
Local libraries around the US don't have the budget or capacity to start delivery service for the entire county. Our tax money doesn't stretch that far when it comes to library services. However, there are libraries that do have delivery service, but its only for patrons with permanent disability or other limitation.
$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.
Hopefully that’s $7 to pick up/return an entire load of held books, not just one. I know when I was a kid my library card was constantly maxed out on how many books I could have out simultaneously, I think like 20 or 30? We’d go to the library pretty much weekly and bring back ones I’d read, along with the occasional book I’d decided to not finish, or ones I’d just never started on, and I’d get about that many new-to…
I have 4 kids under the age of six. So we pretty much put alot of books on hold every week. Utilizing our tax money!
We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.
$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.
We have three different orders customers can put in. Pickup only, pickup/return and return only. Each order is 6.50 for delivery.
We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone.
Our service is for those who are interest in print media. Secondly, our tax money goes into our local libraries so might as well utilize it. :)
$7 to deliver and $7 to return, may as well buy the book or get a kindle.
I can mail a book across the country for much less. Sure it's probably at a loss to the USPS z but I should be able to do a local delivery or pickup for a fraction of that esp if you could somehow tie in the local post office.
Why buy a book if you can rent one from your tax money to local libraries.
Why put others at loss, if you can create jobs for people who enjoy working in gig economy.