Letter: Something very sad about sale of reference books

Letter: For the past two weeks there's been a sale of books at the reference library at Shrewsbury. It ended on August 26.

If featured a wonderful collection of books on a variety of subjects and special interests.

This will never be repeated in this town.

Some say that you can obtain anything on the internet; the question being, who feeds the net?

Our libraries were stocked by highly skilled librarians and committees who catered for a wide taste.

We've lost something very special with this sale.

I've gained some very interesting books.

Sad they can't be shared by my fellow Salopians who are looking for a book on a specialist subject in the county library.

Today they say we must progress and embrace IT.

I don't know, there's something special like the feel of a book and the joy of finding something you want in those paper pages.

John R Brown

Shrewsbury