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Originally Posted by twowheels
I wonder if we'll be able to buy books as gifts for our local library. If so, and especially if I can be the first to instantly 'check it out', I'd gladly buy books for them, since I read most of them once and never read them again anyhow. Anything that I actually plan to read multiple times I would buy in paper anyhow.
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This is complicated: by allowing patrons to buy ebooks from Overdrive on behalf of the library system and "gift" the purchase to it, librarians lose control of managing the content available in their system. Plus, you'd probably not like the Overdrive prices. And, some people will expect tax receipts and then you need the whole extra layer of managing that and the payment system.
But you can contact your library directly and simply give them a donation.