Changing the name Library to reframe the issue

Sure, but you could easily define book as an eBook. So a Library becomes a container of electronic books.

I don’t think people necessarily take the word “Library” as literally as you’re implying here. When someone says “Record Shop” I don’t think they’re insisting it must be a location where they can physically buy 8-track tapes, vinyl records, cassette tapes, or even CDs.

Do you have specific examples or evidence of people insisting that Library is a less technologically flexible concept than, say, Record Shop?

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