What is more gratifying is that these public libraries are appropriately funded; at the Cambridge Public Library, for example, you will find copies of the latest issue of popular magazines like The New Yorker, or several copies of a new popular book. Readers can scan books and documents, and print, without any charge, up to 25 copies. Unlike in India where a reader is made to feel, in most libraries, like an intruder, the American public library offers a friendly welcome. It took my breath away when a cheerful assistant at the Cambridge Public Library told me that I could borrow as many as 150 books at a time.