Manual shutdown

This library is more like a laboratory. It doesn't
respond to your entrance the way a library should:
by leaning watchfully into you, and inhaling.

What you hear is your footsteps. And the buzz of
the lights. There is the feeling that this is no
longer a place for books. For one thing it doesn't
smell like paper.

These people aren't reading, you think, looking
around. They are downloading.

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