Once upon a time, libraries were accessible to human beings. Try and hark back to those days. You’d enter a quiet place (there might even have been a ‘Silence please’ sign) filled with books so meticulously arranged that it would be a walk in the park to locate a title of your choice. You’d then have the option of sitting with the book at a table within the library itself, poring over it for a while, or taking it back home immediately and — as behoves a dutiful citizen — returning it within a stipulated period of time.

The physical library that stores the books