If you’ve been lamenting the new trend of local coffee houses limiting Wi-Fi access [mb], you have a new friend: your local Seattle Public Library.

Yes, as of last week, seven branches (Ballard, Beacon Hill, Capitol Hill, Green Lake, Greenwood, North East, and Rainier Beach) joned the Central Library in offering FREE wireless service with more branches to come online in the future. I wonder. If a cafe is near a library will the access spillover? Not that I would do that.

Ahem. Wireless user beware, though, there was a caveat in the press release, “Library staff members are not able to provide technical assistance and the Library cannot guarantee that patrons will be able to make a wireless connection.” [spl] Does it make me a hopeless geek that I found that inexplicably funny?