These moves annoy a lot of people (or cost money) and manages to go from a 0.00000001% to a 0.000000010001% sealed border.

Once again, borders doing what they do best: waste honest people’s resources.

You realize that the library is not like a portal right? It's just a building that happens to be on the invisible line. If you wanted to cross the border you could just travel to any point along the countless miles of uninhabited wilderness outside the town and walk across.