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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We moved often when I was a kid. Every time we moved to a new city, the first thing my mom did was take us to the library to get us our library cards. We looked forward to each trip to the library, browsing around and picking out books to check out. We weren't just there to look up a factoid, but we did learn facts about all kinds of subjects and loved reading the stories, so we developed our literacy and spelling skills without even knowing it. The time was well spent and fun, certainly not a waste.

I love being able to quickly look up a factoid online of course but that isn't a substitute for reading books.