sometimes i think about buying a printer and then i remember my library let’s me print 10 pages per day for free then it’s 15¢ for each additional page
That’s a great perk that you can save by printing at the library. I don’t know that it’s feasible for most, or really anyone not on a school campus or living next door to a library. To the rest of us, I recommend a used laser printer for 50 dollars. There’s probably still enough toner in it to print 500-1000 more pages of text.
I’d have to go into town to the library. It’s too far to walk, I’d have to drive, which would mean fuel and then parking fees.
Or I could take public transport, which would be two buses or a bus and a tram. The connections aren’t the best, so the journey into town takes at least an hour, then the same shit home.
Without outing your location, where generally do you reside? I ask as now I’m genuinely curious if a library is no further than a grocery store for most people. I can imagine that being the case in some metropolitan areas–but I wonder about the suburban, and especially rural areas, both of which hold a heck of a lot of people, if it’s true for them. Heck, there’s 4 grocery stores in a 4 mile radius around me but neither of the two closest libraries would fall in that radius.
Just recycled my printer due to this. Totally worth the inconvenience to not support shitty practices and the environmental impact of so many personal printers that only get used once or twice a year before ink dries.
A lot of folks don’t know this, but your local library very likely has printing services for dirt cheap.
sometimes i think about buying a printer and then i remember my library let’s me print 10 pages per day for free then it’s 15¢ for each additional page
That’s a great perk that you can save by printing at the library. I don’t know that it’s feasible for most, or really anyone not on a school campus or living next door to a library. To the rest of us, I recommend a used laser printer for 50 dollars. There’s probably still enough toner in it to print 500-1000 more pages of text.
idk for most people, a library is no further than the grocery store
I live in the equivalent of an American suburb.
I’d have to go into town to the library. It’s too far to walk, I’d have to drive, which would mean fuel and then parking fees.
Or I could take public transport, which would be two buses or a bus and a tram. The connections aren’t the best, so the journey into town takes at least an hour, then the same shit home.
All for a few printed pages.
My local grocery store is ten minutes on foot.
Without outing your location, where generally do you reside? I ask as now I’m genuinely curious if a library is no further than a grocery store for most people. I can imagine that being the case in some metropolitan areas–but I wonder about the suburban, and especially rural areas, both of which hold a heck of a lot of people, if it’s true for them. Heck, there’s 4 grocery stores in a 4 mile radius around me but neither of the two closest libraries would fall in that radius.
most people in developed countries live near a metropolitan center and very few live rurally.
i live in the burbs
Just recycled my printer due to this. Totally worth the inconvenience to not support shitty practices and the environmental impact of so many personal printers that only get used once or twice a year before ink dries.
10 cents a page here.