There is still one where I live, and I read the other day that my town is building another one on the other side of town. So at least some places still have them. I remember spending my whole summer at ours in my hometown, but I haven’t been to my local one in the 10 years I’ve lived here. Not sure how I would go about being comfortable to go by myself as a young adult, though I know no one else there actually cares. Nice read by the way.
Getting upset by a user asking a group of people gathered together specifically for talking about books for recommendations of a similar style to a book they like is pretty weird. What else are we supposed to talk about? This community is called books, the post is about books, the comments are about books. Seems to be pretty on topic to me.