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Originally Posted by HarryT
Because the temptation will be too great for most people. "I haven't finished this book. Where's the harm if I keep it just a few days longer..."
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Originally Posted by CRussel
And yes, I admit, I have kept a book longer than the 3 weeks my library normally limits to on one occasion. But only for an additional couple of days.
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You've just illustrated the cause of my concern about this. I know that you're one of the "good guys" here, but even you just find it too tempting and think "where's the harm in just keeping it a few days longer...". What is an ebook novice likely to do? I think I'd do the same myself - it's just too much of a temptation.
I really wish that library books had a fundamentally different form of DRM, so that the "tools" we all know and love could not remove their DRM, in the same way they won't remove Amazon's "rental" DRM.
That's why I'm so dead set against stripping library DRM, and the reason that I keep an ePub reader in addition to my Kindle.