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My name is Doug Parker and happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, a review of Carnival Celebration and

staff writer Richard Sims here with Cruise News. As always, jumping right to him now. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug. Carnival Cruise Line said, no more libraries. Yeah, this one has got me in my fields, if I'm being quite honest here.

So John Heald was asked, as he often is.

He gets many, many questions, and he is the brand ambassador for Carnival Cruise Line.

And on his Facebook page, he was asked about libraries.

And he basically said that new builds would not be having libraries.

They're phasing them out to make room for restaurants, bars, and basically other revenue

generating venues. And, you know, the reason was basically that people don't really want to

read and that if they don't need to go to the

library to borrow a book because people bring their own books. And, you know, part of that is true,

but there were thousands and thousands of responses to this. And a lot of them sort of said,

they basically put into words what I feel, which is that the library is so much more than

just a place to borrow a book. And it's just true on land and it's true on sea. You know,

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