The list may be interested in this.
My local library in the Sydney suburb of Balmain currently offers Internet
access including email usage to the public for a fee of four dollars
Australian per hour (one pound fifty pence per hour), and computer word
processing for the same fee, or the latter for AUD$2.50 (95 pence) per hour
on production of student or pensioner card.
You could browse through say two issues of Jacket magazine, reading say a
third to half the contents of each issue, in about an hour; making the cost
to the public about 80 pence per issue.
A little less expensive than the Paris Review, you might say, and somewhat
more accessible.
Local libraries in Australia (most suburbs have one) are operated by local
municipal councils, and most city-based libraries offer similar services.
Because of Australia's geographical/population spread -- the size of the
continental USA, with half the population of California -- country towns
are less well supplied.
-- John Tranter, editor, Jacket magazine
from
John Tranter, 39 Short Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Sydney, Australia
tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569
Editor, Jacket magazine: http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
Homepage: five megabytes of glittering literature, free, at
http://www.alm.aust.com/~tranterj/index.html
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