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Originally Posted by Sparrow
If you borrow the book from the library, you are preventing other people from accessing it for the duration.
Perhaps taking the hypothetical download would do more to maintain the sum of human happiness (the library book remains on option for others).
It could be argued that the download, in this scenario, is the ethical to do.
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You are doing more than that. Libraries use checkouts to justify their existence and in some cases they may even buy more books of a particular type if it is popular. The is also true of eBooks you check out of a library. Money as spent on the book you are reading. Certainly not the same as getting a Pirate copy.
Dale