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Welcome to the Forum from the BBC World Service.
I'm Rajan Dattar.
Now, can you guess what it is that forum listener Sarah is describing?
It's a welcoming place where the door is open to all for free.
It's a useful public place in many towns to find toilet or do some printing or charge your phone.
Tourists can get help here with directions, what to visit or where to get a coffee nearby.
It's a place where computers are available to use, with quiet corners where students study.
It's a community hub for the young or old to join a reading group,
a craft class or a language course.
New parents can meet and relax at story time for toddlers.
And perhaps when popping by to read a newspaper,
a lonely pensioner will get to talk to someone today.
Oh, and you can borrow a book here too.
Yes, we're talking about public libraries,
a subject that has generated an enormous response from the World Service audience when we asked you on Facebook and the Forum website.
The physical spaces of libraries,
the buildings and everything that's in them are clearly important to many of our listeners.
But in this digital age, quite a few people now also have what you,
Andrew, call an infinite micro library in their pockets.