SIR – Councillor Geoff Reid (Letters, November 20) sympathises with the cuts to the library service and agonises about the demise or near demise of the mobile library service and its effect on the vulnerable. Instead of lamenting in the T&A, should he not be fighting the cuts in Council?
These cuts affect both young and old, trying to pay off a debt which can never be paid off.
The library service is a wonderful institution, but because of technological progress its future is doubtful in its present form. The electronic book will eventually be accepted by us all.
The majority now pay bills electronically, and even our shopping bills are paid with plastic cards, and people find it simpler and less hassle and fully accept it, so I do not fear for the concept and future of libraries, but accept they will change.
Unfortunately or fortunately because of these technological advances, libraries and other well-loved institutions will become romantic remembrances.
Peter Raistrick, Westgate, Eccleshill
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