Yet membership libraries such as the Boston Athenaeum, where book lovers pay a modest annual fee to curl up in a literary , have long been overshadowed by their public counterparts.

• 尽管在类似波士顿雅典娜神殿，读书爱好者只要花一笔适当的年费，就可以享用全年的私立会员图书馆，一直以来受公立图书馆的钳制。