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Originally Posted by Newfie56
He pointed out that it's a shame people have an ebook for the entire time period... whereas he usually finishes a (standard) book in a couple of days and then returns it.
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Sometimes they give you a choice of whether you want the book for 7, 14, or, maybe, 21 days. So you can choose 7 days to give another borrower more time.
The lease rate the library pays OverDrive, Inc. reflects how many people will likely use the book. If they let people take out books for even shorter periods, OverDrive probably would charge more in anticipation of there being a greater number of patrons. Similarly, if some day Amazon reaches agreements allowing some eBooks to be used on Kindle devices, you can be sure that OverDrive will charge libraries a higher lease rate to support that option. Or maybe they will make the Kindle library book an entirely different purchase for the library. That's why I do agree with Harry that reading a copyrighted library book on a Kindle is, in morality, stealing, albeit in a quite mild form.