Library ebook lending surges as UK turns to fiction during lockdown

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Charity says ebooks borrowing up 146% from March to August, with crime thrillers popular

Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesPhotograph: Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesThey may have been closed for months during lockdown, but amid long days and many on furlough it has emerged that the nation turned to local libraries for cultural sustenance – with a surge in the lending of ebooks, and crime thrillers in particular.

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Great news loved being able to read ebooks on my phone to distract from wasted prolonged social media use. Does make me think of one of my favourite songs and bands Manic St Preachers . libraries gave us power. A design for life

Online library books have been so welcome, I’ve borrowed loads. And yes, Animal Farm and 1984 were two of them!

I bet Orwell, Kafka and Huxley are being read a lot in the libraries we have left after the cull of over 800 libraries during the past decade...

The Swedes never imposed a national lockdown/mandatory mask wearing. Sweden has fewer deaths per million than the UK. It's not because of population density, Manchester has recorded more deaths than Stockholm (a similar size city). Why do Brits have to live in a police state?

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