Anyone been in recently?

All self serve tills n stuff

...just another way of alienating people, another 'barrier'..... thought up by techno geeks to make it easier for everyone except the user. They operate under the assumption that everone is a 20 something techno obsessive and anyone who isn't is ..... odd.

Anyone who cant scan a barcode on a machine isnt odd just plain stupid I mean look at the clip of people who work in Netto and they manage it ok

i can see both ways of thinking

if my 80 year old nan went in there she would be clueless

But it is faster, is easier, saves waiting about

Sometimes you have to embrace technology and get on board, times change.

We're all adults surely we can get a book, press a button, scan it, then leave.

I prefer ....'people'... it's just another scam to cut costs I'd imagine (which anything involving 'new technologies' never seem to though). It may be OK for you and me, but you are missing the point, some pensioner may think ... best not to bother.

What if you have to pay a fine>....will a big arrow point at you from the ceiling?

No I think you are wrong old Doris will learn to use it as were else would she get a book from apart from buying one. Funnily enough mr grandad uses his sky+, laptop and mobile phone how does he do that while thinking best not to bother.

It's probably a cunning punishment to get revenge on people who have the nerve to prefer books to computer downloads.

Oh, a family of techno geeks...sorry pal, but most pensioners don't walk around clutching their laptops, wearing a baseball cap and whizzing past on their skateboard.

Not a family of techno geeks at all you are talking down to pensioners as though they are incapable of learning simple tasks of scanning a barcode

christ it's free, can we really complain?

First time i'd been in today since it went like this, didn't have a clue, just asked, women showed me what to do, chocs away, job done

Compo, sometimes I like to argue black's white, just to keep my hand in ...... go and take the hook out of your cheek
p.s. it could have went on longer, but the garage has just phoned for me to pick the car up.

Haven been in since i was about ten buy books from oxfam and take them back. Although was in Gosforth Library on Friday and know what you are on about

I can honestly say I've never looked at any people in Netto

no, a robot librarian points at you and makes a loud noise like the alarms going off at the baths when it's your turn to come out of the pool.