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Originally Posted by joobies
A problem with the open epub books.... you can not return them early.
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The fact that there's no 'return early' capability is a consequence of there being no DRM, since this is a feature of ADE/RMSDK that only applies to DRMed content. Overdrive has never provided this feature on the library portal itself (though it would be nice if they did).
I'm curious about the language used to motivate people to respect licensing terms, if there will be email sent to remind people to delete the content, etc.
It's only a 'problem' insofar as you may pick a lending period that turns out to be much longer than it takes to actually read the book, denying the opportunity for another patron to borrow the book. I assume one still has the usual 7/14/21 day checkouts provided by the library. A reasonable mitigation might be to disallow 21 day checkouts for non-DRM ebooks (if they're normally provided by the library).