Has it been a while since your last visit to a public library?

距离你上次去公共图书馆已经过了一段时间了吗？

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The function of a public library was once described as "less a reservoir than a fountain".

公共图书馆的功能曾被描述为“与其说是水库，不如说是喷泉”。

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Yet the greenest way to read turns out to be old-fashioned. Get books - from a public library.

但是最环保的阅读方法应该是最传统的- - -从公共图书馆借书。

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"Boston is the first city in the country to have had a public library."

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"It's not a public library, it's a private library,"

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A new report appeared in March in the journal PLoS Medicine, published by the Public Library of Science.

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Undaunted, he has been searching for work online, using the free computers at a public library.

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That's not surprising -- recently author Dave Taylor explained step-by-step how to borrow a Kindle book from a public library.

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And you could fill a public library with Jeremy Rifkin's lamentations over cloning, biotechnology and Holstein cows that give too much milk.

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