Augst also notes that part of the significance of the Library Company of Philadelphia is that they ordered and stocked books based on the expressed interests of their subscribers, rather than curating the collection based on a particular ideology.

奥古斯特还指出，费城图书馆公司的部分意义在于，他们是根据订户表达的兴趣来订购和储存图书的，而不是根据一种特定的意识形态来策划收藏。