Since I don't live in a large population area, it is impossible for me to borrow e-books from the library. Thus I find the opposite case to be true. I can easily amass a quite large personal e-book library in electronic form via Amazon and iBooks but if I want a book that is difficult to get from those sources, I can usually borrow it from our local library or get it on an inter-library loan or―as a last resort―buy it from ABE. So while it would be wonderful to be able to borrow e-books from libraries, I think it is still a convenience restricted to fairly large population areas.
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