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Asawi · 04-01-2011, 06:40 AM

Illegal or not, it's against library rules, if that is of any importance at all (I'm guessing "no" here...).

(I take it somewhere along my membership process I agree to follow the rules...)

Either way, you can't expect the library to tell you "oh yes, you can read our books on the Kindle if you do this, this and this. It's breaking the rules, but since the rules are stupid anyway ...", and after all, that's what all this started with. A library trying to teach people how to use their service.

Excerpts of Overdrive copyright notice from FLP (Philadelphia) site (highlights by me):

Headline: Important Notice about Copyrighted Materials
<snip>
The Content and any other copyrighted material may not be modified, ...
<snip>
You will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit...
<end of excerpts>

04-01-2011, 06:40 AM	#199
Asawi Gadgetoholic Posts: 1,467 Karma: 3865860 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Sweden Device: Kobo Libra2, Tolino Vision 6	Illegal or not, it's against library rules, if that is of any importance at all (I'm guessing "no" here...). (I take it somewhere along my membership process I agree to follow the rules...) Either way, you can't expect the library to tell you "oh yes, you can read our books on the Kindle if you do this, this and this. It's breaking the rules, but since the rules are stupid anyway ...", and after all, that's what all this started with. A library trying to teach people how to use their service. Excerpts of Overdrive copyright notice from FLP (Philadelphia) site (highlights by me): Headline: Important Notice about Copyrighted Materials <snip> The Content and any other copyrighted material may not be modified, ... <snip> You will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit... <end of excerpts> Last edited by Asawi; 04-01-2011 at 06:51 AM.